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Trichodes nutalli Kirby 1818
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Description
Trichodes nutalli (Kirby, 1818)
NEW BRUNSWICK: Northumberland Co.: Portage Island, 5.viii.2004, S. Blaney, shoreline on Solidago sempervirens L., CGMC. NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville, 15.v.1999, C. Sheffield, intercepted from Saskatchewan, ACNS.
Newly recorded in New Brunswick (Figure 7). In Nova Scotia intercepted in association with Palearctic alfalfa leafcutter bees (Megachile rotundata (Fabricius)) (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) imported from Saskatchewan. Trichodes nutalli does not appear to be established in Nova Scotia. Adults of Trichodes are often found on a variety of flowers where they feed, mate, and oviposit; the larvae are predators in nests of bees and wasps (Knull 1951, Opitz 2002).
Notes
Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2006, The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, pp. 31-46 in Zootaxa 1385 on page 38, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175098
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Kirby
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Cleridae
- Genus
- Trichodes
- Species
- nutalli
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Trichodes nutalli Kirby, 1818 sec. Majka, 2006
References
- Knull, J. N. (1951) The checkered beetles of Ohio (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin, 8 (42), 268 - 350.
- Opitz, W. (2002) Cleridae Latreille 1804. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr., Thomas, M. C., Skelley, P. E. & Frank, J. H. (E ds.). American Beetles, Volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA. pp. 267 - 280.