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Calosoma sycophanta

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Description

Calosoma sycophanta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Records: RHODE ISLAND, Washington Co., Westerly, 15-VII-1989, 1 ex., 20-VIII-1990, 1 ex.

Note: Species introduced to North America as early as 1906 to control gypsy moth and brown tail moth (Fall, 1934). This species is well established in Eastern USA in deciduous forests.

Notes

Published as part of Ferreira, Raul Nascimento, 2015, Additions to the annotated checklist of Rhode Island beetles (Coleoptera ¡ Carabidae)., pp. 195-212 in Arquivos Entomolóxicos 13 on page 196, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.12714554

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Biodiversity

Event date
1989-07-15 , 1990-08-20
Verbatim event date
1989-07-15 , 1990-08-20
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Calosoma
Species
sycophanta
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Calosoma sycophanta (Linnaeus, 1758) sec. Ferreira, 2015

References

  • FALL, H. C. 1934. A new name and other miscellaneous notes (Coleoptera). The Pan Pacific Entomologist 10! 171 - 174.