Tritoma pulchra Say, 1826

NOVA SCOTIA: 38 specimens examined from Antigonish, Cape Breton, Colchester, Cumberland, Guysborough, Halifax, Hants, Kings, Lunenburg, Pictou, Richmond, and Yarmouth counties (Fig. 1). The earliest record is from 1974 (Lunenburg Co.: Big Mushamush Lake, 30.vi.1974, B. Wright, NSMC).

Adults and larvae are found in various mushrooms and soft polypore fungi in the genera Ceriporia, Ganoderma, Oligoporus, Piptoporus, Polyporus, Russula, Stemonitis, and Tyromyces (Skelley et al. 1991) .