Cryptophagus mainensis Casey 1924
Creators
- 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
- 2. Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, Canada
Description
Cryptophagus mainensis Casey, 1924
NEWFOUNDLAND: Steady Brook, July 10, 1949, E. Palmen (2, MZHF). NOVA SCOTIA: Cumberland Co.: Westchester-Londonderry, August 22, 1992, S. & J. Peck, forest road, car netting (1, JCC); Hants Co.: Panuke Lake, 16–29 July, 1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce/eastern hemlock (old growth), FIT (1, NSMC); Panuke Lake, 29 July-13 Aug, 1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce (45 years), FIT (1, NSMC); Panuke Lake, 29 July-13 Aug, 1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce (45 years), FIT (1, NSMC).
Cryptophagus mainensis is newly recorded in insular Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Canada as a whole (Fig. 3). This is a Nearctic species previously known only from Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Ohio (Woodroffe and Coombs 1961; Chandler 2001). In Nova Scotia specimens were collected in red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg., Pinaceae) and mixed eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr., Pinaceae) and red spruce forests varying in age from old growth (120+ years) to 45 years. This is the first habitat information about this species. It is a very distinctive species on account of its small size (1.5–1.7 mm.) and very large pronotal callosities which subtend 1/3 of the lateral margin of the pronotum.
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Related works
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.35.314 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576615 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFAC7068C112FFFCB57BFFADE35AF019 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MZHF, JCC , NSMC
- Event date
- 1949-07-10
- Family
- Cryptophagidae
- Genus
- Cryptophagus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Casey
- Species
- mainensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1949-07-10/1992-08-22
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cryptophagus mainensis Casey, 1924 sec. Majka & Langor, 2010
References
- Woodroffe GE, Coombs CW (1961) A revision of the North American Cryptophagus Herbst (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae). Miscellaneous Publications of the Entomological Society of America 2: 179 - 211.
- Chandler DS (2001) University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections. http: // insectcoll. unh. edu / [accessed 21. VIII. 2009].