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Cryptolestes ferrugineus
Creators
- 1. Nova Scotia Museum, 1747 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Description
Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens, 1831)
NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Truro, 15.II.1973, G. Townsend, (4, NSAC); Halifax Co.: Halifax, 4.XII.1989, (1, NSMC); Halifax, 1.XII.1999, R. White, grain elevators, (6, NSMC); locality not recorded, 27.VI.1973, collector not recorded, (25, NSAC). PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 16.IV.1985, J. Lund, in barley, (2, ACPE); Charlottetown, VIII.1992, J.G. Stewart, grain bin, (3, ACPE).
Cryptolestes ferrugineus is newly recorded in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It was reported from Newfoundland by Bousquet (1991). Th is cosmopolitan species is a serious pest of stored grain in Canada where it is found mainly in granaries, grain elevators, and mills (Bousquet 1990).
Notes
Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2008, The flat bark beetles (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Cucujidae, Laemophloeidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 221-238 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 229, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14, http://zenodo.org/record/576402
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.2.14 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576402 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFBAFFA6D159B46AFFE450248E1CE062 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ACPE , NSAC , NSAC, ACPE , NSMC
- Event date
- 1973-02-15 , 1973-06-27 , 1989-12-04 , 1999-12-01
- Family
- Laemophloeidae
- Genus
- Cryptolestes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Stephens
- Species
- ferrugineus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1973-02-15 , 1973-06-27/1985-04-16 , 1989-12-04 , 1999-12-01
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptolestes ferrugineus (Stephens, 1831) sec. Majka, 2008
References
- Bousquet Y (1991) Family Cucujidae: flat bark beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Publication 1861 / E: 219 - 220.
- Bousquet Y (1990) Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: an identification guide. Agriculture Canada Publication 1837: 1 - 215