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Epuraea peltoides Horn 1879

  • 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 peltoides Horn, 1879

Albert Co.: Mary’s Pt., 45.73°N, 64.67°W, 9.VIII.2002, 12.V.2007, C.G. Majka, compost heap, (2, CGMC); Carleton Co.: Jackson Falls, Bell Forest, 46.2200°N, 67.7231°W, 18-27.VI.2008, R.P. Webster, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel trap, (1, RWC); Kent Co.: Kouchibouquac National Park, 30.VIII.1977, S.J. Miller, (1, CNC); York Co.: Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W,13.IX, 2007, R.P. Webster, mixed forest, in pile of corncobs and cornhusks, (1, RWC).

Epuraea peltoides has been recorded in Canada from Alberta east to Québec and Nova Scotia (McNamara 1991; Majka and Cline 2006), and in the United States south to Virginia and west to Indiana and Wisconsin (Parsons 1943). Price and Young (2006) found it on rotting peaches, and at wounded hardwood trees.

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher, Webster, Reginald & Cline, Andrew, 2008, New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada, pp. 337-356 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 345, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.23, http://zenodo.org/record/576398

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Biodiversity

Collection code
CGMC , CNC , RWC
Event date
1977-08-30 , 2008-06-18
Family
Nitidulidae
Genus
Epuraea
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Horn
Species
peltoides
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1977-08-30 , 2008-06-18/27
Taxonomic concept label
Epuraea peltoides Horn, 1879 sec. Majka, Webster & Cline, 2008

References

  • Horn G (1879) Revision of the Nitidulidae of the United States. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 7: 267 - 336.
  • 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.