Crepidodera violacea Melsheimer, 1847**

Webster, Reginald P., LeSage, Laurent & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Megalopodidae and Chrysomelidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 321-348 : 331

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2625

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scientific name

Crepidodera violacea Melsheimer, 1847**
status

 

Crepidodera violacea Melsheimer, 1847** Map 20

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1890°N, 67.6766°W, 8.VI.2005, M.-A. Giguère & R. Webster, flood plain forest, beating foliage of Prunus virginiana (10, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Parry (1986) reported Crepidodera violacea from Crataegu s and Prunus , including choke cherry ( Prunus virginiana L.). Other host plants reported by Clark et al. (2004) known to occur in New Brunswick are Amelanchier , pin cherry ( Prunus pensylvanica L.), and black cherry ( Prunus serotina Ehrh.). Adults from New Brunswick were collected by beating foliage of choke cherry during June.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON, QC, NB ( LeSage 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

Tribe

Alticini

Genus

Crepidodera