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Agathidium mollinum Fall 1934

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, Canada

Description

Agathidium mollinum Fall, 1934

NEW BRUNSWICK: Kent Co.: Kouchibouguac National Park, 13.IX.1977, J.M. Campbell, CNC. NEWFOUNDLAND: Little Grand Lake, 2 km east of Martin Pond, 15.VII-25.VIII.1992, old fir forest, pitfall trap, (1, MUN). NOVA SCOTIA: Guysborough Co.: Seloam Lake, 2-15.VI.1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Inverness Co.: MacKenzies Mtn., 4.VI.1983, R. Vockeroth, pan trap, (1, CNC); MacKenzies Mtn., 27-29.VIII.1983, M. Sharkey, (1, CNC); MacKenzies Mtn., 18.IX.1983, J.M. Campbell and A. Davies, sifting mosses, (1, CNC); Victoria Co.: North Mtn., VIII.1983, D.E. and J.E. Bright, (1, CNC); Yarmouth Co.: Wellington, 12-20.VIII.1991, J. Cook, coastal forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, JCC).

Agathidium mollinum is newly recorded in New Brunswick, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and in Atlantic Canada (Fig. 7). It was recorded from birch, fir, maple, and conifer litter and from a fern rhizome. Host records include the slime molds Cribraria purpurea Schrad., Diderma floriforme (Bull.) Pers., and Stemonitis axifera (Bull.) T. Macabr. (Miller and Wheeler 2005).

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Langor, David, 2008, The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography, pp. 357-402 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 379, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.56, http://zenodo.org/record/576397

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Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3770896 (DOI)
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Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.2.56 (DOI)
Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576397 (URL)
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Biodiversity

Collection code
CNC , JCC , MUN, NSMC
Event date
1977-09-13 , 1983-06-04 , 1983-08-27 , 1983-09-18 , 1991-08-12
Family
Leiodidae
Genus
Agathidium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Fall
Species
mollinum
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
1977-09-13/1997-06-15 , 1983-06-04 , 1983-08-27/29 , 1983-09-18 , 1991-08-12/20
Taxonomic concept label
Agathidium mollinum Fall, 1934 sec. Majka & Langor, 2008

References

  • Wheeler QD, Miller KB (2005) Slime-mold beetles of the genus Agathidium Panzer in North and Central America, Part I. Coleoptera: Leiodidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 290: 1 - 95.