Reesa vespulae
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Description
Reesa vespulae (Milliron, 1939)
NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax Co.: Halifax, 7.v.1981, 13.v.1981, 21.v.1981, 15.vi.1981, 1.v.1983, and 24.v.1983, B. Wright, (25), NSMC; Halifax, 14.i.1991, R. Grantham, (2), NSMC; Lake Egmont, 20.vi.1990, E. Parker, NSMC. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 4.vii.1986, 1.viii.2000, and summer 1998, M.E.M. Smith, (7), ACPE; Charlottetown, 1.vii.1986, L.S. Thompson, ACPE.
Newly recorded in Nova Scotia (Fig. 3). Found in the northern states in the USA (Beal 2003); in Canada recorded across the country from British Columbia and the Northwest Territories east to Newfoundland. A minor pest of insect and plant collections, occasionally found in granaries and dwellings (Bousquet 1990). In natural circumstances it is a scavenger of dead insects and spiders in wasp nests (Beal 1967).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ACPE , NSMC
- Event date
- 1983-05-24 , 1986-07-01 , 1990-06-20 , 1991-01-14
- Family
- Dermestidae
- Genus
- Reesa
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Milliron
- Species
- vespulae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1983-05-24 , 1986-07-01 , 1990-06-20 , 1991-01-14
- Taxonomic concept label
- Reesa vespulae (Milliron, 1939) sec. Majka, 2007
References
- Beal, R. S., Jr. (2003) Annotated checklist of Nearctic Dermestidae with revised key to the genera. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 57 (4), 391 - 404.
- Bousquet, Y. (1990) Beetles associated with stored products in Canada: an identification guide. Agriculture Canada Research Branch, Ottawa, Ontario. Publication 1837, 1 - 215.
- Beal, R. S., Jr. (1967) A revisionary study of the North American dermestid beetles formerly included in the genus Perimegatoma. Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America, 5, 281 - 312.