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<taxonomicName LSID="21ED9D00-822A-5702-ADB2-87FF86DE1ACC" authority="Boheman, 1850" authorityName="Boheman" authorityYear="1850" class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Nephus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nephus bisignatus" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="bisignatus">Nephus bisignatus (Boheman, 1850)</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 33, 34" captionStartId="F18" captionText="Figures 33, 34. 33 Chilocorus renipustulatus (Scriba) 33 A habitus, L. Borowiec 33 B median lobe (penis guide) and parameres, ventral view 33 C penis (sipho), tip in lateral view 34 Nephus bisignatus (Boheman) 34 A habitus, S. Karjalainen 34 B median lobe (penis guide) and parameres, lateral view 34 C penis (sipho), tip in lateral view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (33 A), 0.5 mm (33 B; 34 A), 0.2 mm (33 C; 34 B), 0.1 mm (34 C)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.894.37862.figures33-34" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/362154" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.894.37862.figures33-34">Figure 34</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Distribution</paragraph>
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Previously known only from Europe, where the species is more common in the north and rather sporadic in the central and southern parts (
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<bibRefCitation author="Fuersch, H" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen der Muenchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="178 - 213" refId="B69" refString="Fuersch, H, 1965. Die palaearktischen Arten der Scymnus-bipunctatus-Gruppe und die europaeischen Vertreter der Untergattung Sidis (Col. Cocc.). Mitteilungen der Muenchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 55: 178 - 213" title="Die palaearktischen Arten der Scymnus-bipunctatus-Gruppe und die europaeischen Vertreter der Untergattung Sidis (Col. Cocc.)." volume="55" year="1965">
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<bibRefCitation author="Kovar, I" editor="Loebl, I" journalOrPublisher="Pensoft Publishers, Sofia" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" refId="B119" refString="Kovar, I, Loebl, I, Smetana, A, 2007. Coccinellidae. In: LoeblISmetanaA (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Vol.4). Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 568-631." title="Coccinellidae. In: LoeblISmetanaA (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera (Vol. 4). Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 568 - 631." year="2007">
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<bibRefCitation author="Silfverberg, H" journalOrPublisher="Sahlbergia" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="1 - 144" refId="B188" refString="Silfverberg, H, 2010. Enumeratio renovata Coleopterorum Fennoscandiae, Daniae et Baltiae. Sahlbergia 16: 1 - 144" title="Enumeratio renovata Coleopterorum Fennoscandiae, Daniae et Baltiae." volume="16" year="2010">Silfverberg 2010</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Rassi, P" journalOrPublisher="Sahlbergia" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="1 - 164" publicationUrl="http://www.luomus.fi/sites/default/files/sahlbergia/sahlbergia_21_S1_2015.pdf" refId="B171" refString="Rassi, P, Karjalainen, S, Clayhills, T, Helve, E, Hyvaerinen, E, Laurinharju, E, Malmberg, S, Mannerkoski, I, Martikainen, P, Mattila, J, Muona, J, Pentinsaari, M, Rutanen, I, Salokannel, J, Siitonen, J, Silfverberg, H, 2015. Kovakuoriaisten maakuntaluettelo 2015 [Provincial List of Finnish Coleoptera 2015]. Sahlbergia 21: 1 - 164" title="Kovakuoriaisten maakuntaluettelo 2015 [Provincial List of Finnish Coleoptera 2015]." url="http://www.luomus.fi/sites/default/files/sahlbergia/sahlbergia_21_S1_2015.pdf" volume="21" year="2015">Rassi et al. 2015</bibRefCitation>
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). Probably Holarctic and previously overlooked in North America.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Nunavut: Kugluktuk, 25-Jun-2010 (1 ex, CNC); Kugluktuk, 01-Jul-2010 (1 ex, CNC); Kugluktuk, 11-Jul-2010 (1 ex, CNC); Kugluktuk, 13-Jul-2010 (1 ex, CNC).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Diagnostic information</paragraph>
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(based on
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<bibRefCitation author="Fuersch, H" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen der Muenchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="178 - 213" refId="B69" refString="Fuersch, H, 1965. Die palaearktischen Arten der Scymnus-bipunctatus-Gruppe und die europaeischen Vertreter der Untergattung Sidis (Col. Cocc.). Mitteilungen der Muenchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft 55: 178 - 213" title="Die palaearktischen Arten der Scymnus-bipunctatus-Gruppe und die europaeischen Vertreter der Untergattung Sidis (Col. Cocc.)." volume="55" year="1965">
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<bibRefCitation author="Fuersch, H" editor="Freude, H" journalOrPublisher="Mitteilungen der Muenchner Entomologischen Gesellschaft" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" refId="B70" refString="Fuersch, H, Freude, H, Harde, KW, Lohse, GA, 1967. Coccinellidae. In: FreudeHHardeKWLohseGA (Eds) Die Kaefer Mitteleuropas, Band 7.Goecke & Evers, Krefeld, 227-278." title="Coccinellidae. In: FreudeHHardeKWLohseGA (Eds) Die Kaefer Mitteleuropas, Band 7. Goecke & Evers, Krefeld, 227 - 278." year="1967">1967</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Fuersch, H" journalOrPublisher="Entomologische Abhandlungen (Dresden)" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="57 - 74" refId="B71" refString="Fuersch, H, 1987. Uebersicht ueber die genera und Subgenera der Scymnini mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung der Westpalaearktis (Insecta, Coleoptera, Coccinellidae). Entomologische Abhandlungen (Dresden) 51: 57 - 74" title="Uebersicht ueber die genera und Subgenera der Scymnini mit besonderer Beruecksichtigung der Westpalaearktis (Insecta, Coleoptera, Coccinellidae)." volume="51" year="1987">1987</bibRefCitation>
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). Body length 1.5-2.0 mm. Habitus elongate-oval (
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 33, 34" captionStartId="F18" captionText="Figures 33, 34. 33 Chilocorus renipustulatus (Scriba) 33 A habitus, L. Borowiec 33 B median lobe (penis guide) and parameres, ventral view 33 C penis (sipho), tip in lateral view 34 Nephus bisignatus (Boheman) 34 A habitus, S. Karjalainen 34 B median lobe (penis guide) and parameres, lateral view 34 C penis (sipho), tip in lateral view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (33 A), 0.5 mm (33 B; 34 A), 0.2 mm (33 C; 34 B), 0.1 mm (34 C)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.894.37862.figures33-34" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/362154" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.894.37862.figures33-34">Fig. 34A</figureCitation>
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). Black, with the anterior edge of the pronotum and often the apical edge of the elytra narrowly brown. Each elytron with a single small, obscurely delimited red-brown spot close to the apex, sometimes very faintly visible. Antennae with nine antennomeres. Pronotum very finely punctate, with strong, netlike microsculpture. Postcoxal lines on first abdominal ventrite briefly parallel to the hind margin of the ventrite at the middle, with the apices curved forward laterally. Male genitalia as in
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figures 33, 34" captionStartId="F18" captionText="Figures 33, 34. 33 Chilocorus renipustulatus (Scriba) 33 A habitus, L. Borowiec 33 B median lobe (penis guide) and parameres, ventral view 33 C penis (sipho), tip in lateral view 34 Nephus bisignatus (Boheman) 34 A habitus, S. Karjalainen 34 B median lobe (penis guide) and parameres, lateral view 34 C penis (sipho), tip in lateral view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm (33 A), 0.5 mm (33 B; 34 A), 0.2 mm (33 C; 34 B), 0.1 mm (34 C)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.894.37862.figures33-34" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/362154" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" tableDoi="10.3897/zookeys.894.37862.figures33-34">Fig. 34B, C</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Bionomic notes.</paragraph>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Nephus bisignatus</emphasis>
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prefers open, usually sandy habitats in Europe (
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<bibRefCitation author="Koch, K" journalOrPublisher="Goecke & Evers Verlag, Krefeld" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" refId="B115" refString="Koch, K, 1989b. Die Kaefer Mitteleuropas, Oekologie (Vol. 2). Goecke & Evers Verlag, Krefeld" title="Die Kaefer Mitteleuropas, Oekologie (Vol. 2)." year="1989 b">Koch 1989b</bibRefCitation>
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). The Canadian specimens were collected in mesic tundra with yellow pan and pitfall traps.
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, 1987, which is characterized by having only nine antennomeres (
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). All the previously recorded Canadian species have either ten or eleven antennomeres (
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<bibRefCitation author="Gordon, RD" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="1 - 362" refId="B75" refString="Gordon, RD, 1976. The Scymnini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the United States and Canada: Key to genera and revision of Scymnus, Nephus and Diomus. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 28: 1 - 362" title="The Scymnini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the United States and Canada: Key to genera and revision of Scymnus, Nephus and Diomus." volume="28" year="1976">Gordon 1976</bibRefCitation>
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<bibRefCitation author="Gordon, RD" journalOrPublisher="Journal of the New York Entomological Society" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="1 - 912" refId="B76" refString="Gordon, RD, 1985. The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 93: 1 - 912" title="The Coccinellidae (Coleoptera) of America north of Mexico." volume="93" year="1985">1985</bibRefCitation>
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). The remote collecting localities in the arctic tundra indicate that this species is probably Holarctic and previously overlooked in North America rather than adventive from the Palaearctic region. Two subspecies are known from Europe (
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), but we refrain from assigning the Canadian specimens to any subspecies. Among the Nearctic fauna,
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(Weise, 1929), but has a narrower body outline and usually smaller and less conspicuous elytral spots.
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<taxonomicName class="Insecta" family="Coccinellidae" genus="Nephus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Nephus georgei" order="Coleoptera" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="georgei">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">Nephus georgei</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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also has ten antennomeres instead of nine.
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<bibRefCitation author="Gordon, RD" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" pagination="1 - 362" refId="B75" refString="Gordon, RD, 1976. The Scymnini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the United States and Canada: Key to genera and revision of Scymnus, Nephus and Diomus. Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences 28: 1 - 362" title="The Scymnini (Coleoptera: Coccinellidae) of the United States and Canada: Key to genera and revision of Scymnus, Nephus and Diomus." volume="28" year="1976">Gordon (1976)</bibRefCitation>
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notes that specimens of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="N. georgei" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" rank="species" species="georgei">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">N. georgei</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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from the northern parts of the Northwest Territories are smaller and narrower compared to specimens from southern Canada and northern United States, and that the pale color pattern of the elytra is reduced in the northern specimens. Based on these notes, the arctic specimens of
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<taxonomicName lsidName="N. georgei" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" rank="species" species="georgei">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">N. georgei</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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may actually represent
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<taxonomicName lsidName="N. bisignatus" pageId="0" pageNumber="53" rank="species" species="bisignatus">
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="53">N. bisignatus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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and need to be re-examined.
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</paragraph>
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</subSubSection>
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</treatment>
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</document>
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