Nitidula bipunctata
- 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
Nitidula bipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Carleton Co.: Jackson Falls, Bell Forest, 46.2152°N, 67.7190°W, 11.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, in flight, (1, RWC); Westmorland Co.: Moncton, 25.X.1977, E. Ouellette, (1, UMNB); York Co.: Charters Settlement, 45.8426°N, 66.7276°W, 9.V.2004, R.P. Webster, regenerating mixed forest, in dried carrion, (10, RWC).
Nitidula bipunctata has been recorded in Canada from the Yukon and British Columbia east to Québec and Nova Scotia (McNamara 1991; Majka and Cline 2006), and in the United States from Maine south to Virginia and Kentucky, west to Texas and north to Michigan, Kansas, Iowa, and Minnesota; also on the Pacific coast from Alaska south to Oregon and Idaho (Parsons 1943; Hatch 1962). Long regarded as an adventive Palearctic species, Majka and Cline (2006) drew attention to the fact that the earliest reports on the continent are from high altitudes in an isolated range of the Rocky Mountains in 1878, a very unlikely location for an introduced species to be found, thus suggesting a possible Holarctic distribution. The species is found on dry carrion (Dillon and Dillon 1961; Downie and Arnett 1996). In Nova Scotia most specimens were found in association with decomposing pigs (Sus scrofa Linnaeus) (Suidae) (Majka and Cline 2006).
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- 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 , UMNB
- Event date
- 1977-10-25 , 2004-05-09 , 2005-05-11
- Family
- Nitidulidae
- Genus
- Nitidula
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
- Species
- bipunctata
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1977-10-25 , 2004-05-09 , 2005-05-11
- Taxonomic concept label
- Nitidula bipunctata (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.
- 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.
- Hatch MH (1962) The Beetles of the Pacific Northwest. Part III. Pselaphidae and Diversicornia I. University of Washington Publications in Biology 16: 1 - 503.
- Dillon ES, Dillon LS (1961) A manual of common beetles of Eastern North America. Row, Peterson and Company, Evanston, 884 pp.
- Downie NM, Arnett RH, Jr (1996) The beetles of northeastern North America. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, 1721 pp.