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Bradycellus congener LeConte 1848

Description

Bradycellus congener (LeConte, 1848)

NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville, 8.vi.1998, S. Rigby, pitfall trap, (1, ACNS).

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia and the Maritime Provinces as a whole. Found in the borders of marshes, ponds, lakes, reservoirs, watering holes, slow rivers and brooks, swamps, pastures, vacant lots, cultivated fields, and roadsides on open, somewhat wet, soil with sparse vegetation; adults feed on coccinellids (Larochelle & Larivière 2003).

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., Bousquet, Yves & Westby, Susan, 2007, The ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: review of collecting, new records, and observations on composition, zoogeography, and historical origins, pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 1590 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.273915

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Carabidae
Genus
Bradycellus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
LeConte
Species
congener
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Bradycellus congener LeConte, 1848 sec. Majka, Bousquet & Westby, 2007

References

  • Larochelle, A. & Lariviere, M. - C. (2003) A natural history of the ground-beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of America north of Mexico. Pensoft, Sofia, Bulgaria. 583 pp.