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Lecontia disicollis LeConte 1850

Description

Lecontia disicollis (LeConte, 1850)

NEW BRUNSWICK: Kent Co.: Kouchibouguac National Park, 24 May 1977, G.A. Calderwood, 6 specimens, CNC; Kouchibouguac National Park, 24 May 1977, S.J. Miller, 3 specimens, CNC.

Widespread in Canada (Northwest Territories and British Columbia east to New Brunswick), the United States, and northern Mexico (Campbell 1991b, Pollock 2002b). Larvae inhabit the subcortical region of conifers killed by fire and bark­beetle activity (Young et al. 1996).

Other

Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2006, The Mycteridae, Boridae, Pythidae, Pyrochroidae, and Salpingidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, pp. 37-51 in Zootaxa 1250 on page 40, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172996

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Boridae
Genus
Lecontia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
LeConte
Species
disicollis
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Lecontia disicollis LeConte, 1850 sec. Majka, 2006

References

  • Campbell, J. M. (1991 b) Family Boridae. In: Bousquet, Y. (Ed.). Checklist of the Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Publication 1861 / E. pp. 268.
  • Pollock, D. A. (2002 b) Boridae C. G. Thompson 1859. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr., Thomas, M. C., Skelley, P. E. & Frank, J. H. (Eds.). American Beetles, Volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA. pp. 534 - 536.
  • Young, D. K., Katkovich, K. & Schwenhel, M. (1996) The larval habitat of Lecontia discicolli s (LeConte) (Boridae). Mola, 6, 2 - 3.