NOTE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE IMMIGRANT BARK BEETLE, HYLASTES-OPACUS, IN NORTH-AMERICA (COLEOPTERA, SCOLYTIDAE)

The Palearctic bark beetle, Hylastes opacus, was first recorded for No rth America in 1989 from a single location near Long Island, New York. This paper reports H. opacus from Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, West Virginia, and central New York. This black pine bark beetle was detec ted in Maine and Vermont in Ips pheromone-baited Lindgren funnel traps in 1993, in alpha-pinene baited traps in New Hampshire in 1994, and a n ethanol baited trap in West Virginia in 1994. Additional specimens w ere identified from an earlier collection in New York. These records e xtend the known range of H. opacus in North America from New York to n orthern New England and south to West Virginia.