Colopterus truncatus
- 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
Colopterus truncatus (Randall, 1838)
Carleton Co.: Hovey Hill, 46.1115°N, 67.7710°W, 7.IX.2004, R.P. Webster, hardwood forest, under poplar bark, (3, NBM, RWC); near the Hovey Hill, 46.1155°N, 67.7631°W, 10.V.2005, R.P. Webster, clearcut, mixed forest, under bark of Populus sp., (15, NBM, RWC); Belleville, Meduxnekeeg Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1890°N, 67.6766°W, 8.VI.2005, M.-A. Giguére & R.Webster, flood plain forest, on flowers of Prunus virginiana, (1, RWC); Sunbury Co.: 7.5 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6861°N, 66.7719°W, 9.V.2007, Mixed forest, in litter at base of cut white birch oozing sap, (1, RWC); Lakeville Corner, 45.9013°N, 66.2565°W, 27.VIII.2006, R. P. Webster, silver maple forest, on corncobs, (1, RWC); York Co.: Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 8.IX.2007, Mixed forest, in pile of corncobs and cornhusks, (1, RWC).
Colopterus truncatus has been recorded in Canada from the Yukon east to Nova Scotia (McNamara 1991; Majka and Cline 2006), and it is broadly distributed in the United States south through Central America to Brazil (Parsons 1943). Adults are found under bark and feed on sap (Parsons, 1943) or on molds in subcortical environments (A. Cline, pers. obs.). Price and Young (2006) found the species on large-toothed poplar (Populus grandidentata Michx., Salicaceae), and maple (Acer sp., Aceraceae).
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Related works
- Is part of
- 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
- Collection code
- NBM, RWC , RWC
- Event date
- 2004-09-07 , 2005-05-10 , 2005-06-08 , 2006-08-27 , 2007-05-09 , 2007-09-08
- Family
- Nitidulidae
- Genus
- Colopterus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Randall
- Species
- truncatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2004-09-07 , 2005-05-10 , 2005-06-08 , 2006-08-27 , 2007-05-09 , 2007-09-08
- Taxonomic concept label
- Colopterus truncatus (Randall, 1838) 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.
- 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.
- Parsons CT (1943) A revision of Nearctic Nitidulidae (Coleoptera). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 92: 121 - 278.
- Price MB, Young DK (2006) An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kataretidae). Insecta Mundi 20 (1 - 2): 68 - 84.