Published June 29, 2006 | Version v1
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Scotochroa atra LeConte

Description

Scotochroa atra LeConte

NOVA SCOTIA: Guysborough Co.: Borneo, 26.vii.1995, C. Corkum, NSMC; Halifax Co.: French Village, 9.viii.1945, D.C. Ferguson, NSMC; Big St. Margaret’s Bay, 1–16.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Campbell Hill, 16–29.vii.1997, D.J. Bishop, NSMC; Queens Co.: Eight Mile Lake, 9.vii.2003, P. Dollin, NSMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia. In Nova Scotia, most specimens were found in red spruce (Picea rubens) forests; one in a decaying white birch (Betula papyrifera Marshall) log.

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher G. & Pollock, Darren A., 2006, Understanding saproxylic beetles: new records of Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Synchroidae, and Scraptiidae from the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), pp. 45-68 in Zootaxa 1248 on page 55, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172970

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
LeConte
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Melandryidae
Genus
Scotochroa
Species
atra
Taxon rank
species