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Pycnomerus lordi Bukejs & Alekseev & Cooper & King & Mckellar 2019, nom. nov.
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Description
Pycnomerus lordi Bukejs, Alekseev & McKellar nom. nov.
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Pycnomerus sulcicollis LeConte, 1863, nomen praeoccupatum, non Pycnomerus sulcicollis (Germar, 1824)
Etymology. Patronymic. This species is named after Dr. Nathan P. Lord (Baton Rouge, Louisiana, U.S.A.) in honour of his valuable contributions to the study of Zopheridae.
Distribution. The species occurs in eastern U.S.A., from New Jersey to Florida, and extends westward to reach eastern Oklahoma (Stephan 1989).
Biology. The beetles live under bark and in rotting, moist wood of oak, hickory, and other hardwoods; they also occur rarely on pine (Stephan 1989).
Notes
Published as part of Bukejs, Andris, Alekseev, Vitalii I., Cooper, David M. L., King, Gavin A. & Mckellar, Ryan C., 2019, A new fossil species of Pycnomerus Erichson (Coleoptera: Zopheridae) from Baltic amber, and a replacement name for a Recent North American congener, pp. 565-572 in Zootaxa 4550 (4) on page 571, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.4.6, http://zenodo.org/record/2625675
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Identifiers
- URL
- http://zoobank.org/65832C7D-3950-4C93-8041-1FC9D42452D3
- URL
- http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D48789FFB60E77FF4E93AFFD90FA2D
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:65832C7D-3950-4C93-8041-1FC9D42452D3
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Bukejs & Alekseev & Cooper & King & Mckellar
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Zopheridae
- Genus
- Pycnomerus
- Species
- lordi
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- nom. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pycnomerus lordi Bukejs, Alekseev & Mckellar, 2019
References
- Stephan, K. H. (1989) The Bothrideridae and Colydiidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Clavicornia and Heteromera. Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods. Uol. 6. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, xii + 65 pp.