Ophraella notata (Fabricius, 1801)**

Webster, Reginald P., LeSage, Laurent & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Megalopodidae and Chrysomelidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 321-348 : 328

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Ophraella notata (Fabricius, 1801)**
status

 

Ophraella notata (Fabricius, 1801)** Map 12

Material examined.

New Brunswick,Sunbury Co., 2.5 km S of Beaver Dam, 45.7735°N, 66.6852°W, 13.VIII.2008, R. P. Webster, powerline-right-of-way, sweeping (and hand picking) foliage of Eupatorium perfoliatum (15, NBM, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

The normal host plant of Ophraella notata is thoroughwort or bonset ( Eupatorium perfoliatum L.)( LeSage 1986b). Specimens from New Brunswick were abundant on this host plant in a damp meadow area along a powerline right-of-way. Adults were collected during August.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON, QC, NB ( LeSage 1986b, 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Chrysomelidae

SubTribe

Chrysomelina

Genus

Ophraella