Latridiidae, Erichson, 1842

Majka, Christopher G., Klimaszewski, Jan & Lauff, Randolph F., 2006, New Coleoptera records from owl nests in Nova Scotia, Canada, Zootaxa 1194, pp. 33-47 : 43

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2646209
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5667430
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scientific name	Latridiidae
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Corticarina cavicollis (Mannerheim) is recorded in Canada from British Columbia, Ontario, Québec, and Nova Scotia ( Bousquet 1991). Adults and larvae in the Latridiidae View in CoL feed on the conidia of fungi and Myxomycetes, particularly fungi in the classes Phycomycetes, Deuteromycetes and Ascomycetes ( Andrews 2002). The present report provides the first record of C. cavicollis from a bird's nest, however, related species in the Corticariinae such as Corticaria elongata (Gyllenhal) , C. pubescens (Gyllenhal) , Cortinicara gibbosa (Herbst) ( Hicks 1962, 1971), and Corticarina fuscula (Gyllenhal) (W. Rücker, pers. com.) have previously been found in bird's nests.

References

Andrews, F. G. (2002) Latridiidae Erichson 1842. In: Arnett, R. H., Jr., Thomas, M. C., Skelley, P. E. & Frank, J. H. (Eds.). American Beetles, Volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA. pp. 395 - 398.

Bousquet, Y. (1991) Family Lathridiidae: minute brown scavenger beetles. In: Bousquet, Y. (Ed.). Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada: Research Branch, Publication 1861 / E. pp. 239 - 241.

Hicks, E. A. (1962) Checklist and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Supplement I. Iowa State Journal of Science, 36, 233 - 348.

Hicks, E. A. (1971) Checklist and bibliography on the occurrence of insects in birds' nests. Supplement II. Iowa State Journal of Science, 46, 123 - 338.