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Pytho seidlitzi Blair 1925

Description

Pytho seidlitzi Blair, 1925

NOVA SCOTIA: Inverness Co.: Margaree Valley, 1 August 1980, R. Chénier, under bark of Abies balsamea, CNC.

Recorded across Canada in most provinces from the Northwest Territories and British Columbia to Nova Scotia; in the northern United States from Maine and New York west to Minnesota, and in the west in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Montana. Only one record from the Maritime Provinces (Fig. 2). Larvae are found under bark; host plants include a variety of species of Pinus, Larix, Picea, Tsuga, Pseudotsuga, and Abies (Pinaceae) (Pollock 1991).

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 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172996

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Pythidae
Genus
Pytho
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Blair
Species
seidlitzi
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Pytho seidlitzi Blair, 1925 sec. Majka, 2006

References

  • Pollock, D. A. (1991) Natural history, classification, reconstructed phylogeny, and geographical history of Pytho Latreille (Coleoptera: Heteromera: Pythidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 154. 104 pp.