Platandria carolinae
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Platandria
Name
Platandria carolinae Casey, 1910 New Canadian Record – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
CANADA: ON:Lincoln Co., Short Hills, Wildlife Pres., 1 mi E of N. Pelham, flowers of ‘Cornis florida’ L., 5.vi.1973, H. Frania, 2 (CNC).
Distribution
Canada: ON; USA: DC, GA, IL, IN, IA, KA, LA, NE, NJ, NC, PA, TN, VA (Génier and Klimaszewski 1986[1]). Native.
Comments
This is the only eastern species of Platandria (Génier and Klimaszewski 1986[1]) and the first record of this species for Canada. Hanley (2003)[2] reported Platandria from Canada (Ontario) for the first time in a summary of its general distribution but without locality information. Little is known about the biology of Platandria except that they are associated with the flowers of various shrubs (Ashe in Newton et al. 2000), despite an older account of an association with fungi (Blatchley 1910[3]). The above specimens were collected in the flowers of Flowering Dogwood, a species confined in Canada to the Carolinian region of southern Ontario. As far as known, Platandria carolinae is similarly distributed in Canada, possibly indicating a staphylinid-plant association though this species was not among the assemblage of Coleoptera found on Flowering Dogwood by Rhoades et al. (2011)[4] in Tennessee.
Taxon Treatment
- Brunke, A; Klimaszewski, J; Dorval, J; Bourdon, C; Paiero, S; Marshall, S; 2012: New species and distributional records of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Ontario, Canada, with a checklist of recorded species ZooKeys, 186: 119-206. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Génier F, Klimaszewski J (1986) Review of the Types of the Genus Platandria Casey with a key to the species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 40: 201-216.
- ↑ Hanley R (2003) Generic revision of the staphylinid beetle tribe Hoplandriini (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 138: 83-140. doi: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00060.x
- ↑ Blatchley W (1910) An illustrated descriptive catalog of the Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana. The Nature Publishing Co., Indianapolis, Indiana, 1386 pp.doi: 10.5962/bhl.title.56580
- ↑ Rhoades P, Klingeman W, Trigiano R, Skinner J (2011) Evaluating Pollination Biology of Cornus florida L. and C. kousa (Buerger ex. Miq.) Hance (Cornaceae: Cornales). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 84: 285-297. doi: 10.2317/JKES110418.1
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