Results

Majka, Christopher G., Chandler, Donald S., Sheffield, Cory S. & Webster, Reginald P., 2006, New Records of Ripiphoridae (Coleoptera) from the Maritime Provinces of Canada, The Coleopterists Bulletin 60 (4), pp. 299-303 : 300

Results

A specimen of Ripiphorus fasciatus (Say 1823) was collected by D.S. Chandler on 2 August 1991, 2 miles southwest of Marion Bridge , Cape Breton County, Nova Scotia ( UNH). A second specimen was collected by Reginald Webster on 18 July 1998, 3.5 km southwest of the junction of Highway 101 and the Charter’s Settlement Road , York County, New Brunswick ( RPWC). A third specimen was collected by Cory Sheffield on 24 July 2004 in Middleton , Kings County, Nova Scotia ( ACNS). Packer et al. (1989b) found an unidentified ripiphorid larvae in an Augochlorella striata (Provancher 1888) ( Hymenoptera : Halictidae ) nest at Irish Cove , Richmond County, Nova Scotia, and L. Packer (pers. comm.) commonly found high frequencies of ripiphorid triungulins on Lassioglossum ( Dialictus ) sp. bees near Sydney, on Cape Breton Island , Nova Scotia.

Finally, in an unpublished manuscript of beetles collected by entomologist William McIntosh (former director of the New Brunswick Museum) and associates in Saint John, New Brunswick between 1898–1907, a specimen of Myodites zeschii LeConte [= Ripiphorous zeschii (LeConte 1880) ] is reported ( NBM). This specimen was determined by W. H. Harrington, an early member of the Canadian Entomological Society, a frequent contributor to the Canadian Entomologist, and the foremost Canadian coleopterist of his time. Although we have not been able to relocate the specimen to confirm the specific determination, it would have undoubtedly been correctly determined as Ripiphorus by as experienced an entomologist as Harrington. Collection localities in the Maritime Provinces and Maine are shown in Figure 1 .

Figures

Fig. 1. Distribution of Ripiphoridae in the Maritime Provinces and Maine. Closed circles indicate records of Ripiphorus fasciatus. Open circles indicate records of a ripiphorid not determined to species.