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Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema 1869

Description

Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869

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Material examined. Only adults: 1♂, 2♀♀, Russia: Western Siberia, Altai Krai, Kytmanovsky Distr., env. Sosnovy Log vill., Kamenka River, on beaver, 23 Aug 2019, coll. F. Budaev, IBIW RAS; 2♂♂, 5♀♀, same place, env. Staraya Taraba vill., Balakhcha River, on beaver, 27 July 2020, coll. F. Budaev, BPC.

Distribution. The species have Holarctic distribution. In North America species know from Canada, United States (Peck, 2006), in Palaearctic Platypsyllus castoris recorded for Europe (Belgium, Belarus, The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Latvia, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden and Switzerland) (Perreau 2015) and the European part of Russia, where the species is known from Voronezh (Prokin & Kirejtshuk 2007), Rostov (Arzanov et al. 2013) and Saratov (Sazhnev et al. 2019) Oblasts.

Notes

Published as part of SAZHNEV, Alexey S. & BUDAEV, Fyodor A., 2020, First record of Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869 (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) from Siberia, pp. 125-127 in Fragmenta Faunistica 63 (2) on pages 125-126, DOI: 10.3161/00159301FF2020.63.2.125, http://zenodo.org/record/6252527

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
2019-08-23 , 2020-07-27
Verbatim event date
2019-08-23 , 2020-07-27
Scientific name authorship
Ritsema
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Leiodidae
Genus
Platypsyllus
Species
castoris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869 sec. SAZHNEV & BUDAEV, 2020

References

  • PECK ST. B. 2006. Distribution and biology of the ectoparasitic beaver beetle Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema in North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Platypsyllinae). Insecta Mundi 20 (1 - 2): 85 - 94.
  • PROKIN A. A. & KIREJTSHUK A. G. 2007. On Platypsyllus castoris Ristema, 1869 (Coleoptera, Leiodidae, Platypsyllinae) in Voronezh Province and notes on other leiodid beetles connected with mammals. Problems and perspectives of general entomology. Abstracts of the 13 th Congress of Russian Entomological Society: 296 - 297.
  • ARZANOV YU. G., VALOV G. V. & BAKHTADZE G. B. 2013. Platypsyllus castoris Ritsema, 1869. (Coleoptera: Leiodidae) - new species from Rostov Region (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 9 (1): 47 - 49. DOI: 10.23885 / 1814 - 3326 - 2013 - 9 - 1 - 47 - 49
  • SAZHNEV A. S., VOLODCHENKO A. N. & ZABALUEV I. A. 2019. New data to the fauna of beetles (Coleoptera) of the Saratov Province. Report 2. Eversmannia 57: 9 - 1.