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Anisotoma geminata

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, Canada

Description

Anisotoma geminata (Horn, 1880)

NOVA SCOTIA: Hants Co.: Panuke Lake, 16-29.1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Inverness Co.: Lone Shieling, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 19.VI-9.VIII.1983, various collectors, (10 CNC); MacKenzies Mountain, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 19.VI-9.VIII.1983, various collectors, (9, CNC); MacKenzies Mountain, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 25.VI.1983, Y. Bousquet, pan trap, (2, CNC); Queens Co.: Medway River, 13.VII.1993, J. and T. Cook, car net, (1, JCC); Victoria Co.: North Mountain, 19.VI-9.VIII.1983, (1, CNC); Yarmouth Co.: Wellington, 12-20.VIII.1991, J. Cook, flight-intercept trap, (1, JCC); Wellington, 25.VI-3.VII.1995, J. and F. Cook, mixed forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, JCC); Wellington, 15-24.VII.1993, J. and T. Cook, flight-intercept trap, (3, JCC).

Anisotoma geminata is newly recorded in Nova Scotia and in Atlantic Canada (Fig. 9). Adults have been found between April and December in stump and forest litter. Slime mold hosts include Stemonitis axifera, S. fusca, and Tubifera ferruginosa (Wheeler 1979).

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Langor, David, 2008, The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography, pp. 357-402 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 385, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.56, http://zenodo.org/record/576397

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Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3770900 (DOI)
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Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.2.56 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

References

  • Horn GA (1880) Synopsis of the Silphidae of the United States with reference to the genera of other countries. Transactions of the American Entomological Society 8: 219 - 322.
  • Wheeler QD (1979) Slime mold beetles of the genus Anisotoma (Leiodidae): classification and evolution. Systematic Entomology 4: 251 - 309.