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Pytho americanus Kirby 1837
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Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837
Broadly distributed throughout North America; in Canada recorded in every province except for Prince Edward Island, and not on the island of Newfoundland. In the Maritime Provinces primarily recorded in southern Nova Scotia and New Brunswick (Fig. 2). In the United States widely distributed in the east and west with fewer records in the Great Plains. Larvae found under bark, primarily of Pinus spp. and also Picea mariana, and Tsuga heterophylla (Raf.) Sarg. (Pinaceae) (Pollock 1991). In Nova Scotia found associated with Pinus strobus, Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr., and Picea rubens Sarg. (Pinaceae).
Notes
Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2006, The Mycteridae, Boridae, Pythidae, Pyrochroidae, and Salpingidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, pp. 37-51 in Zootaxa 1250 on page 42, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172996
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Pythidae
- Genus
- Pytho
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Kirby
- Species
- americanus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pytho americanus Kirby, 1837 sec. Majka, 2006
References
- Pollock, D. A. (1991) Natural history, classification, reconstructed phylogeny, and geographical history of Pytho Latreille (Coleoptera: Heteromera: Pythidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 154. 104 pp.