New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Buprestidae.

Nine species of Buprestidae; Agrilus bilineatus (Weber), Agrilus crinicornis Horn, Agrilus obsoletoguttatus Gory, Agrilus putillus putillus Say, Brachys ovatus (Weber), Buprestis sulcicollis (LeConte), Chalcophora liberta (Germar), Phaenops aeneola (Melsheimer), and Taphrocerus gracilis (Say) are newly recorded for New Brunswick, Canada. Agrilus bilineatus, A. crinicornis, A. obsoletoguttatus,and B. ovatus are also newly reported for the Maritime provinces. Lindgren 12-funnel traps do not appear to be an effective tool for sampling the Bupresidae. Collection, habitat notes, and distribution maps are presented for each species.

Introduction

Bellamy and Nelson (2002) presented a general overview of the Buprestidae (the metallic wood-boring or jewel beetles) of North America. This species-rich family of beetles is popular with collectors due to their often bright and metallic coloration. Larvae of many of the wood-boring species bore into roots and logs or within bark or cambium layers of trunks or branches of dead or dying trees and shrubs (Bellamy and Nelson 2002). A few species attack living trees and shrubs. Other species are stem and leaf miners of herbaceous and woody plants, including grasses (Bellamy and Nelson 2002). Adults are usually diurnally active, and some species are active strong flyers and PageBreakoften take flight when approached. Adults of some species feed on foliage of their host plants, others feed on pollen or nectar of flowers. Thirty-nine species of Buprestidae were reported from New Brunswick (Bellamy 2008a,b,c; Nelson et al. 2008). Here, we report nine additional species for the province.

Methods and conventions

The following records are based on specimens collected during a general survey by the first author to document the Coleoptera fauna of New Brunswick and from by-catch samples obtained during a study to develop a general attractant for the detection of Cerambycidae. Additional provincial records were obtained from specimens contained in the collection belonging to Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Collection methods

Most specimens were collected by sweeping foliage or hand picking from host plants. A few specimens were captured in Lindgren 12-funnel traps during a study to develop a general attractant for the detection of invasive species of Cerambycidae. See Webster et al. (in press) for details of the methods used to deploy Lindgren traps and for sample collection. A description of the habitat was recorded for all specimens collected during this survey. Locality and habitat data are presented exactly as on labels for each record. This information, as well as additional collecting notes, is summarized and discussed in the collection and habitat data section for each species.

Specimen preparation

Males of some species of Buprestidae (most species) were dissected to confirm their identity. The genital structures were dehydrated in absolute alcohol and mounted in Canada balsam on celluloid microslides or glued on cards and pinned with the specimens from which they originated.

Distribution

Distribution maps, created using ArcMap and ArcGIS, are presented for each species in New Brunswick. Every species is cited with current distribution in Canada and Alaska, using abbreviations for the state, provinces, and territories. New records for New Brunswick are indicated in bold under Distribution in Canada and Alaska. The following abbreviations are used in the text:PageBreak

Acronyms of collections examined or where specimens reside referred to in this study are as follows:

AFC Atlantic Forestry Centre, Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada

CNC Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

NBM New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada

RWC Reginald Webster Collection, Charters Settlement, New Brunswick, Canada

Results

Species accounts

All records below are species newly recorded for New Brunswick, Canada. Species followed by ** are newly recorded from the Maritime provinces of Canada.

The classification of the Buprestidae follows Nelson et al. (2008).

Family Buprestidae Leach, 1815

Nine species of Buprestidae are newly recorded for New Brunswick, Canada. Among these, (Weber), Horn, Gory, and (Weber) are also new for the Maritime provinces (New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island). Only six specimens of two of the nine species reported here were captured in Lindgren 12-funnel traps during a study to develop a general attractant for the detection of invasive species of Cerambycidae. These traps mimic tree trunks and are often effective for sampling species of Coleoptera that live in microhabitats associated with standing trees (Lindgren 1983). However, the standard black Lindgren funnel traps appear to be much less effective at collecting species of buprestids than species in families such as Cerambycidae, Elateridae, Melandryidae, and many others (see other papers by Webster et al. in this volume). Francese et al. (2011) recently showed mean catch of the invasive emerald ash borer, Fairmaire, in Lindgren funnel traps was significantly increased by changing the color from standard black to either purple or green, and by treating the trap surface with Rain-X (ITS Global Brands, Houston, TX), a product normally used to reduce friction and water build-up on windshields. It is possible that use of funnel traps with other colors may enhance the catch of other buprestid species.PageBreak

Subfamily Chrysochroinae Laporte, 1835

Tribe

(Germar, 1824)

http://species-id.net/wiki/Chalcophora_liberta

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Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

Material examined.

New Brunswick, York Co., Fredericton, 16.VIII.1988, G. J. Crain (1, AFC).

Collection and habitat data.

No habitat data were associated with this specimen. Larvae of this species have been reported from red pine ( Ait.) and white pine ( L.) (Nelson et al. 2008).

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

MB, ON, QC, NB, PE (Bright 1987; Davies 1991; Bellamy 2008a).

Subfamily Buprestinae Leach, 1815

Tribe

(LeConte, 1860)

http://species-id.net/wiki/Buprestis_sulcicollis

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Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, York Co., 3.5 km S jct. Hwy 3 & 4 near Davis Brook, 11.VI.1998, R. P. Webster, on white pine log (1, RWC); 15 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6837°N, 66.8809°W, 10.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, clear-cut (old red pine forest), on red pine stump (1, RWC).

Larvae have been reported from pitch pine ( Mill.) and white pine (Bright 1987). In New Brunswick, one individual was collected from a white pine log, another from a red pine stump during June.

NT, AB, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS, NF (Bright 1987; Davies 1991).

Tribe Melanophilini Bedel, 1821

(Melsheimer, 1845)

http://species-id.net/wiki/Phaenops_aeneola

Map 3

Map 3.

Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, York Co., 15 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6848°N, 66.8821°W, 4–11.VIII.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, old red pine PageBreakforest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, AFC); same locality and forest type, emgd. 3–7.V.2010, C. Hughes, reared from small branches of fallen red pine (3, AFC, RWC); same locality and forest type but 27.VII–10.VIII.2010, R. Webster & C. Hughes, Lindgren funnel trap (1, AFC).

Larvae of this species have been reported from red pine and Virginia pine ( Mill.) (Nelson et al. 2008). Adults have been reported on jack pine (), shortleaf pine ( P. Mill.), and spruce ( sp.) (Nelson et al. 2008). In New Brunswick, adults were captured during July and August in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in an old red pine forest. Three adults were reared from small branches of a fallen (during winter 2009) red pine.

ON, QC, NB, PE (Bright 1987; Davies 1991; Bellamy 2008b).

Subfamily Agrilinae Laporte, 1835

Tribe

(Weber, 1801)**

http://species-id.net/wiki/Agrilus_bilineatus

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Map 4.

Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, Queens Co., Cranberry Lake P.N.A. (Protected Natural Area) 46.1125°N, 65.6075°W, 14.VIII.2009, M.-A. Giguère & R. Webster, red oak forest, on foliage of red oak sapling (1, RWC); same locality data and forest type, 29.VI–7.VII.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, Lindgren forest trap in forest canopy (4, AFC, NBM, RWC).

Larvae of have been reported from a variety of sp., including our native red oak ( L.) (Nelson et al. 2008). Adults from New Brunswick were collected during July and August from foliage of red oak and in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in a red oak forest.

MB, ON, QC, NB (Bright 1987; Davies 1991).

Horn, 1891**

http://species-id.net/wiki/Agrilus_crinicornis

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Map 5.

Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, Queens Co., Cranberry Lake P.N.A, 46.1125°N, 65.6075°W, 18.VI.2009, 25.VI.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, old red oak forest, on foliage of red oak (3, AFC). Sunbury Co., Burton near SunpokePageBreak Lake, 45.7658°N, 66.5546°W, 20.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, red oak and red maple forest, on foliage of (9, RWC).

Larval hosts include L., American beech ( Ehrh.), honey locust ( L.), and white oak ( L.) (Nelson et al. 2008). is the only known host species that occurs in New Brunswick, although other sp. such as (red oak) occur in the province. Adults from New Brunswick were collected from foliage of , a probable host of in the province.

ON, QC, NB (Bright 1987; Davies 1991).

Gory, 1841

http://species-id.net/wiki/Agrilus_obsoletoguttatus

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Map 6.

Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, Sunbury Co., Little Lake Rd., 10.VII.1958 (E. A. Rubridge), on red oak, 58-0795 (2, AFC). (Specimens determined by D.E. Bright, 1981).

Larval hosts of reported by Nelson et al. (2008) that occur in New Brunswick include red oak, ironwood ( (Mill.) K. Koch)), and sp. The specimens from New Brunswick were collected from foliage of red oak during July.

ON, QC, NB (Bright 1987; Davies 1991).

Say, 1833

http://species-id.net/wiki/Agrilus_putillus_putillus

Map 7

Map 7.

Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Jackson Falls, Bell Forest, 46.2200°N, 67.7231°W, 8.VII.2008, R. P. Webster, Rich Appalachian hardwood forest, m.v. light (1, RWC).

Larval hosts include sugar maple ( Marsh.), Norway maple ( L.), and honey locust (Nelson et al. 2008). The adult from New Brunswick was collected during July at a mercury vapor light in a forest with sugar maple, American beech, and white ash ( L.), and other hardwood species.

ON, QC, NB, PE(Bright 1987; Davies 1991; Bellamy 2008c).

Tribe Trachyini Laporte, 1835

(Weber, 1801)**

http://species-id.net/wiki/Brachys_ovatus

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Map 8.

Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, Sunbury Co., Burton near Sunpoke Lake, 45.7659°N, 66.5563°W, 28.VII.2007, R. P. Webster, margin of red oak stand near lakeshore, on foliage of (1, RWC).

Hosts include avariety of sp., including red oak (Nelson et al. 2008). One adult from New Brunswick was collected in late July from foliage of red oak.

ON, QC, NB (Bright 1987; Davies 1991)PageBreak.

(Say, 1825)

http://species-id.net/wiki/Taphrocerus_gracilis

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Map 9.

Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of .

New Brunswick, York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8428°N, 66.7279°W, 20.IV.2005, R. P. Webster, mixed forest, small sedge marsh, in moist grass litter & sphagnum (1, RWC); same locality and collector but 45.8430°N, 66.6275°W, 17.VI.2007, regenerating mixed forest, sweeping foliage of species in small marshy area (1, RWC); 17 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6816°N, 66.9060°W, 2.VII.2008, R. P. Webster, red pine forest, marshy area in roadside ditch, sweeping (1, RWC).

Larval hosts include beak-rush ( (Lam.)) and bulrush ( (Torr.)) (Nelson et al. 2008). Although the above host species do not occur in New Brunswick, related species in these genera occur in the province (Hinds 2000). Adults have been reported from Steud., buttonbush ( L.), and dock ( L.). Adults from New Brunswick were collected from sp., swept from foliage in a marshy area in a roadside ditch, and sifted from moist grass litter and sphagnum in a small marsh. Adults were captured during April, June, and July.

AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS (Bright 1987; Davies 1991; Bellamy 2008c).

AK	Alaska	MB	Manitoba
YT	Yukon Territory	ON	Ontario
NT	Northwest Territories	QC	Quebec
NU	Nunavut	NB	New Brunswick
BC	British Columbia	PE	Prince Edward Island
AB	Alberta	NS	Nova Scotia
SK	Saskatchewan	NF & LB	Newfoundland and Labrador*

*Newfoundland and Labrador are each treated separately under the current Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

Table 1.

Species of Buprestidae recorded from New Brunswick, Canada.

Family Buprestidae Leach

Subfamily Chrysochroinae Laporte

Tribe Chrysochroini Laporte

Chalcophora fortis LeConte

Chalcophora liberta (Germar)*

Chalcophora virginiensis (Drury)

Poecilonota cyanipes (Say)

Tribe Dicercini Gistel

Dicerca caudata LeConte

Dicerca divaricata (Say)

Dicerca lugubris LeConte

Dicerca tenebrica (Kirby)

Dicerca tenebrosa tenebrosa (Kirby)

Dicerca tuberculata (Laporte & Gory)

Subfamily Buprestinae Leach

Tribe Buprestini Leach

Buprestis fasciata Fabricius

Buprestis maculativentris Say

Buprestis striata Fabricius

Buprestis sulcicollis (LeConte)*

Tribe Anthaxiini Gory & Laporte

Anthaxia inornata (Randall)

Anthaxia quercata (Fabricius)

Tribe Melanophilini Bedel

Melanophila acuminata (DeGeer)

Phaenops abies (Champlain & Knull)

Phaenops aeneola (Melsheimer)*

Phaenops drummondi (Kirby)

Phaenops fulvoguttatus (Harris)

Tribe Chrysobothrini Gory & Laporte

Chrysobothris dentipes (Germar)

Chrysobothris femorata (Olivier)

Chrysobothris harrisi Hentz

Chrysobothris neopusilla Fisher

Chrysobothris pusilla Gory & Laporte

Chrysobothris rotundicollis Gory & Laporte

Chrysobothris scabripennis Gory & Laporte

Chrysobothris sexsignata Say

Chrysobothris trinervia Kirby

Chrysobothris verdigripennis Frost

Subfamily Agrilinae Laporte

Tribe Coraebini Bedel

Eupristocerus cogitans (Weber)

Tribe Agrilini Laporte

Agrilus anxius Gory

Agrilus arcuatus (Say)

Agrilus bilineatus (Weber)**

Agrilus criddlei Frost

Agrilus crinicornis Horn**

Agrilus cuprescens (Ménétries)

Agrilus granulatus liragus Barter & Brown

Agrilus obsoletoguttatus Gory**

Agrilus pensus Horn

Agrilus politus (Say)

Agrilus putillus putillus Say**

Agrilus ruficollis (Fabricius)

Agrilus sayi Saunders

Tribe Trachyini Laporte

Brachys aerosus (Melsheimer)

Brachys ovatus (Weber)**

Taphrocerus gracilis (Say)*

Notes: *New to province, **New to Maritime provinces.