Asperosoma echinatum (Fall, 1917) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 28-29

Asperosoma echinatum (Fall, 1917) new to Ontario

Note.

This species ( Fig. 1 ) is associated with the native grassland forb Heuchera richardsoni R. Br. ( Saxifragiaceae ) ( Fall 1917) and was previously known only from Manitoba ( McNamara 1991). This species is at present a Canadian endemic, although it may also exist in USA. Targeted collecting efforts at other Ontario sites have not yielded additional specimens.

Specimen data.

Ontario: Essex Co., Windsor, Burnt Prairie, v.2001, S. Paiero, CNC COLEOPT #04-5422 (1, CMNC).

Figures

Figure 1. Dorsal habitus drawing of Asperosoma echinatum (Fall, 1917), a species to-date only known from Canada. Scale line = 1 mm.