Myrmedophila americana
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Cryptophagidae
Genus: Myrmedophila
Name
Myrmedophila americana (LeConte, 1879)** – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
New Brunswick, Restigouche Co., Dionne Brook P.N.A., 47.9064°N, 68.3441°W, 30.V–15.VI.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, NBM); same locality and collectors but 47.9030°N, 68.3503°W, 27.VI–14.VII.2011, old-growth northern hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC).
Collection and habitat data
This species is myrmecophilous and associated with Formica sp. (Bousquet 1989[1]). The two adults from New Brunswick were captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in an old-growth northern hardwood forest and an old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest. This species was collected during June and July.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska
AK, YT, AB, MB, QC, NB (Bousquet 1989[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Webster, R; Sweeney, J; DeMerchant, I; 2012: New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Sphindidae, Erotylidae, Monotomidae, and Cryptophagidae ZooKeys, 179: 169-192. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bousquet Y (1989) A review of the North American genera of Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 43 (1): 1-17.
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