Mordellina ancilla (LeConte, 1862)

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Mordellidae and Ripiphoridae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 243-256 : 246

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2583

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/89B81DCB-FFA6-C49E-E1E5-E9A2B9361A88

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Mordellina ancilla (LeConte, 1862)
status

 

Mordellina ancilla (LeConte, 1862) Map 7

Material examined.

New Brunswick, York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8430°N, 66.7275°W, 27.VI.2004, R. P. Webster, regenerating mixed forest, sweeping foliage in brushy opening (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

One individual of this species was swept from foliage in a brushy opening of a regenerating (20-year-old) mixed forest during late June. This species was reared from Gleditsia triacanthos L. ( Fabaceae ) (larvae feed inside the thorns) in Tennessee, USA ( Ford and Jackman 1996), but undoubtedly uses other hosts in New Brunswick as this host species does not occur in the province.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON, NB, NS ( McNamara 1991; Majka and Jackman 2006). Mordellina ancilla was newly recorded from Nova Scotia and the Maritime provinces by Majka and Jackman (2006).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Mordellidae

Genus

Mordellina