Carpophilus hemipterus
- 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
- 2. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
- 3. Plant Pest Diagnostics Center, Sacramento, United States of America
Description
Carpophilus hemipterus (Linnaeus, 1758)
York Co.: Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 29.VIII.2007, 8.IX.2007, R.P. Webster, mixed forest, in pile of corncobs and cornhusks (local corn), (8, RWC).
In Canada this adventive species has been recorded from British Columbia east to Québec (McNamara 1991), and in the United States it is widely distributed from Washington and California east to Texas and Florida and north to Wisconsin and Maine; also in Alaska (Parsons 1943; Downie and Arnett 1996; Chandler 2001). Horn (1879) remarked that the species was “widely distributed over the region east of the Rocky Mountains.” The species was reported from Nova Scotia by Majka and Cline (2006) but only as an intercepted species found on imported corn (Zea mays L., Poaceae). This cosmopolitan species has been found on a vast assortment of fresh and dried fruits and stored products including dried fruits such as apples, apricots, bananas, figs, prunes and raisins; fresh fruits and vegetables such as apples, apricots, oranges, dates, grapefruits, limes, maize, melons, pineapples, pears, peaches, persimmons, plums, and tomatoes; on grape skins, sugar, honey, grain, bread, biscuits, rice, avocado seeds, cotton seeds, shelled peanuts, corn meal, sorghum, cloves, and other spices (Hinton 1945).
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- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.2.23 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576398 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC6FF84165548183B314D35FF94915A (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Nitidulidae
- Genus
- Carpophilus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- hemipterus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Carpophilus hemipterus (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Majka, Webster & Cline, 2008
References
- McNamara J (1991) Family Nitidulidae: sap beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Research Branch Publication 1861 / E.: 214 - 217.
- Parsons CT (1943) A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 121 - 278.
- Downie NM, Arnett RH, Jr (1996) The beetles of northeastern North America. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, 1721 pp.
- Chandler DS (2001) University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections. http: // colsa 1. unh. edu: 591 / unhinsects. htm [accessed 18 August 2008]
- Horn G (1879) Revision of the Nitidulidae of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 7: 267 - 336.
- Majka CG, Cline AR (2006) Th e Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Th e Canadian Entomologist 138: 314 - 332.
- Hinton HE (1945) A monograph of the beetles associated with stored products, Volume I. British Museum (Natural History), London, 443 pp.