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Trogoxylon parallelopipedum
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Description
Trogoxylon parallelopipedum (Melsheimer, 1846)
PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Charlottetown, 4.i.1994, J.G. Stewart, in house, (2), ACPE; Mount Stewart, 29.i.1992, J.G. Stewart, ACPE.
An adventive species, possibly established in the region. Newly recorded on Prince Edward Island and in the Maritime Provinces as a whole (Fig. 8). A Nearctic species found in many parts of the United States (Gerberg 1957); in Canada recorded from Ontario (McNamara 1991b). It attacks seasoned hardwood timber, but has also been found boring into the trunks of living honey-locust (Gleditsia triacanthos L. (Fabaceae)) (Gerberg 1957).
Notes
Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2007, The Derodontidae, Dermestidae, Bostrichidae, and Anobiidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Bostrichiformia), pp. 1-38 in Zootaxa 1573 (1) on page 20, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1573.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5096635
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ACPE
- Event date
- 1992-01-29 , 1994-01-04
- Family
- Bostrichidae
- Genus
- Trogoxylon
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Melsheimer
- Species
- parallelopipedum
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1992-01-29 , 1994-01-04
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trogoxylon parallelopipedum (Melsheimer, 1846) sec. Majka, 2007
References
- Melsheimer, F. E. (1846) Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera of the United States. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 2, 302 - 318.
- Gerberg, E. J. (1957) A revision of the New Word species of powder-post beetles belonging to the family Lycidae. United States Department of Agriculture, Technical Bulletin, 1157, 1 - 55.
- McNamara, J. (1991 b) Family Lyctidae: lyctid powder-post beetles. In Bousquet, Y. (Ed.) Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Publication 1861 / E. Ottawa, Ontario, pp. 201.