Published September 4, 2008 | Version v1
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Hydrobius fuscipes

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

Description

Hydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758)

Prince Edward Island: locality data lost, 1974-1983, (9, UPEI); Queens Co.: Watervale, 29.VII.1970, R. Wenn, aquatic vegetation, (1, UPEI); Harrington, 22. VI.1981, K. MacDonald, pond, (1, UPEI); West Royalty, 25. VI.1970, R. Wenn, light trap, North Rustico, 26. VI.2003, C.G. Majka, seashore, (1, CGMC).

Newly recorded on Prince Edward Island, this species is found in a wide range of aquatic habitats, particularly shallow, stagnant pools with plant debris; also in swampy habitats and Sphagnum 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 252, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.25, http://zenodo.org/record/576401

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Biodiversity

Collection code
R, UPEI , UPEI , VI, R, CGMC , VI, UPEI
Event date
1970-06-25 , 1970-07-29 , 1981-06-22
Family
Hydrophilidae
Genus
Hydrobius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
fuscipes
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1970-06-25/2003-06-26 , 1970-07-29 , 1981-06-22
Taxonomic concept label
Hydrobius fuscipes (Linnaeus, 1758) 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.