Triplax thoracica Say, 1825

NEW BRUNSWICK: Gloucester Co.: Bathurst, vii.1910, J.N. Knull, CNC; Carleton Co.: Richmond Hovey Hill, 19.viii.2004, R.P. Webster, hardwood forest: fleshy fungi, RPWC. NOVA SCOTIA: 16 specimens examined from Colchester, Cumberland, Guysborough, Kings, Lunenburg, Pictou, and Queens counties. The earliest records are from 1965 (Cumberland Co.: Wentworth, 21.v-5.vii.1965, B. Wright, sugar maple forest, window trap, NSMC; Lunenburg Co.: Bridgewater, 19.vi.1965, Dept. of Forestry, NSMC). PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 26.ix.1983, L.S. Thompson, oyster mushroom, (4), ACPE; St. Patricks, 30.vi.2003, C.G. Majka, mixed forest, CGMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (Fig. 2). Recorded from various mushrooms and soft polypore fungi in the genera Amanita, Auricularia, Bjerkandera, Ganoderma, Hericium, Hipsizygus, Panus, Pholiota, Pleurotus, and Polyporus (Skelley et al. 1991) . Recorded from the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus, on Prince Edward Island.