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Tropisternus glaber Herbst 1797

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada

Description

Tropisternus glaber Herbst, 1797

Prince Edward Island: locality data lost, 1974-1983, (1, UPEI); Kings Co.: Woodville Mills, 16.VIII.2003, C.G. Majka, beaver pond, (1, CGMC); Queens Co.: Watervale, 29.VII.1970, R. Wenn, vegetation at edge of pond, (1, UPEI); locality data not recorded, VII.1979, L.S. Th ompson, (1, ACPE).

Newly recorded on Prince Edward Island, this species frequents a wide-range of aquatic habitats, particularly lentic ones; often in marshes, swamps and bogs (Smetana 1988).

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher, 2008, The aquatic Coleoptera of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records and faunal composition, pp. 239-260 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 253, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.25, http://zenodo.org/record/576401

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Biodiversity

Collection code
ACPE , CGMC , R, UPEI , UPEI
Event date
1970-07-29 , 2003-08-16
Family
Hydrophilidae
Genus
Tropisternus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Herbst
Species
glaber
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1970-07-29 , 2003-08-16
Taxonomic concept label
Tropisternus glaber Herbst, 1797 sec. Majka, 2008

References

  • Smetana A (1988) Review of the family Hydrophilidae of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 142: 1 - 316.