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Orchesia ovata Laliberte

Description

Orchesia ovata Laliberté

NOVA SCOTIA: Cape Breton Co.: Ball’s Creek, 2.viii.1995, B.L. Musgrave, CBU; Queens Co.: Cobreille Lake, 6–17.vii.2005, S. Poirier, NSMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia. Found on wood covered in decaying foliage on various species of trees, primarily Acer rubrum L. (Laliberté 1966). At Cobreille Lake collected in a mixed Acer spp, Betula, spp., and Quercus rubra L. forest. In Québec collected by beating foliage of Sorbus americana Marsh., Zanthoxylum americanum Mill., Ostrya virginiana (Miller) K. Koch, and Quercus macrocarpa Michx. (D. Pollock, unpublished data).

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 54, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172970

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Laliberte
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Melandryidae
Genus
Orchesia
Species
ovata
Taxon rank
species