Epuraea aestiva
- 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
Epuraea aestiva (Linnaeus, 1758)
[syn. Epuraea depressa (Illiger, 1798)]
Carleton Co.: Belleville, Meduxnekeeg Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1931°N, 67.6825°W, 31.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster, upper river margin (floodplain forest), on bloodroot flowers, (1, RWC); same locality, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster, 8.VI.2005, floodplain forest, on foliage of Prunus virginiana, (3, RWC); Jackson Falls, Bell Forest, 46.2210°N, 67.7210°W, 9.VI.2005, 20.VI.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, on flowers of Prunus virginiana, (2, RWC); same locality, R. P. Webster, 13.VIII.2007, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, on flowers of Solidago, (1, RWC); same locality, 7.VI.2007, on flowers of Viburnum sp. (Adoxaceae); York Co.: Canterbury, near Browns Mountain Fen, 45.8951°N, 67.6333°W, 10.VI.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster, mixed forest, on flowers of Prunus virginiana, (1, RWC).
This Holarctic species is widely distributed in Europe, northern Asia, and throughout the United States (Parsons 1943, Downie and Arnett 1996). In Canada it has been recorded from British Columbia east to Québec and Nova Scotia (McNamara 1991; Majka and Cline 2006). In Nova Scotia it was found in a great variety of forested and open environments on flowers of trees and shrubs, in compost piles, and at sap (Majka and Cline 2006).
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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
- RWC
- Event date
- 2005-05-31 , 2005-06-08 , 2005-06-10 , 2007-06-07 , 2007-08-13
- Family
- Nitidulidae
- Genus
- Epuraea
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- aestiva
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 2005-05-31 , 2005-06-08 , 2005-06-10 , 2007-06-07 , 2007-08-13
References
- 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.
- 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.