Mordellina pustulata
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Mordellidae
Genus: Mordellina
Name
Mordellina pustulata (Melsheimer, 1846) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1931°N, 67.6825°W, 13.VII.2004, K. Bredin, J. Edsall, & R. Webster, river margin, sweeping foliage (1, RWC). York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8430°N, 66.7275°W, 20.VII.2008, R. P. Webster, old field within regenerating mixed forest, sweeping flowers of Aralia hispida (5, RWC); same locality data and collector but 30.VII.2008, regenerating mixed forest, sweeping foliage in brushy opening (1, RWC). Sunbury Co., ca. 2.5 km S of Beaver Dam, 45.7703°N, 66.6867°W, 26.VI.2007, R. P. Webster, mixed forest with red pine, along power-line cut, sweeping foliage (1, RWC).
Collection and habitat data
In New Brunswick, Mordellina pustulata adults were swept from foliage along a river margin, in a regenerating (20-year-old) mixed forest, and along a power-line right-of-way through a mixed forest. Adults were also swept from flowers of bristly sarsaparilla (Aralia hispida Vent.) in a small old field within a regenerating (20-year-old) mixed forest. This species was collected during late June and July. Elsewhere, Mordellina pustulata has been reared from stems of Gentiana andrewsii Griseb. (Gentianaceae), Veronia altissima Nutt. (Scrophulariaceae), and 19 species of Asteraceae (Ford and Jackman 1996[1]; Lisberg and Young 2003[2]).
Distribution in Canada and Alaska
BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, QC, NB, NS (McNamara 1991[3]; Majka and Jackman 2006[4]).This species was newly recorded from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces by Majka and Jackman (2006)[4].
Taxon Treatment
- Webster, R; Sweeney, J; DeMerchant, I; 2012: New Coleoptera records for New Brunswick, Canada: Mordellidae and Ripiphoridae ZooKeys, 179: 243-256. doi
Other References
- ↑ Ford E, Jackman J (1996) New larval host plant data associations of tumbling flower beetles (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) in North America. The Coleopterists Bulletin 50: 361-368.
- ↑ Lisberg A, Young D (2003) An annotated checklist of Wisconsin Mordellidae (Coleoptera). Insecta Mundi 17: 195-202.
- ↑ McNamara J (1991) Family Mordellidae: tumbling flower beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed). Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Publication 1861/E, Agriculture Canada, Research Branch, Ottawa, Ontario: 248-250.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Majka C, Jackman J (2006) The Mordellidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime provinces of Canada. The Canadian Entomologist 138: 292-304. doi: 10.4039/n05-080
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