NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax Co.: Halifax, 7.v.1981, 13.v.1981, 21.v.1981, 15.vi.1981, 1.v.1983, and 24.v.1983, B. Wright, (25), NSMC; Halifax, 14.i.1991, R. Grantham, (2), NSMC; Lake Egmont, 20.vi.1990, E. Parker, NSMC. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 4.vii.1986, 1.viii.2000, and summer 1998, M.E.M. Smith, (7), ACPE; Charlottetown, 1.vii.1986, L.S. Thompson, ACPE.
Newly recorded in Nova Scotia (Fig. 3). Found in the northern states in the USA (Beal 2003); in Canada recorded across the country from British Columbia and the Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland. A minor pest of insect and plant collections, occasionally found in granaries and dwellings (Bousquet 1990). In natural circumstances it is a scavenger of dead insects and spiders in wasp nests (Beal 1967).