New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Quebec, Canada
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Tonnancour, Pierre de
Author
Anderson, Robert S.
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Bouchard, Patrice
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Chantal, Claude
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Dumont, Stephane
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Vigneault, Robert
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.681.12469
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.681.12469
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Curculio rubidus (Gyllenhal, 1835), new to Canada
Species identification confirmed by RSA, 2015
Note.
This record comes three years after the first North American detection of the species in Michigan (
Anderson et al. 2013
) and is based on the incidental finding in the Montreal area (Notre-Dame-de
l'Ile-Perrot
) of a single specimen in 2013 and of dozens of additional specimens 2-3 years later. This widespread Palaearctic species is easily separated from all North American native
Curculio
species by its very small size (<3.5mm), lack of femoral teeth and association with birch,
Betula
L. spp. All specimens recorded in Quebec were collected in a stand of gray birch,
Betula populifolia
Marshall (
Betulaceae
), and most were directly beaten from gray birch. Adults are said to be active from May to October in Europe (
Hoffmann 1954
; as "
Balaninus undulatus
Herbst, 1795"), but all specimens reported herein were captured in August (except
three
specimens caught on September 1, 2016). This species is also newly recorded from Ontario, based on a specimen photographed by Burke Korol in Barrie, Simcoe County, on August 21, 2015 and posted on bugguide.net (http://bugguide.net/node/view/1127147).
Specimen data.
MRC Vaudreuil-Soulanges,
Notre-Dame-de-l'Ile-Perrot
, 10VIII2013 (17:00), beaten from
Quercus rubra
, P. de Tonnancour (1, CPTO); same except: 8VIII2015 (15:00), beaten from
Alnus rugosa
(1, CPTO), beaten from
Betula populifolia
(2, CPTO) or swept from various herbaceous plants in gray birch stand (1, CPTO); same except: 10VIII2015 (13:00), swept from various herbaceous plants in gray birch stand (2, CPTO); same except: 16VIII2015 (15:00), beaten from
Betula populifolia
(4, CCOB; 5, CMNC; 5, CNCI; 18, CPTO; 1, CRVI); 17VIII2015 (14:00) (2, CNCI; 2, CPTO); 17VIII2015 (14:00 and 18:00) (2, CMNC; 2, CNCI; 11, CPTO); 18VIII2015 (19:00) (5, CNCI; 2, CSDU; 1, CRVI); 22VIII2015 (14:00), C. Chantal (10, CCCH); 20VIII2016 (16:00), P. de Tonnancour (3, CPTO); 23VIII2016 (16:00) (1, CPTO); 28VIII2016 (16:00) (2, CPTO); 29VIII2016 (18:00) (1, CPTO); 1IX2016 (13:00) (3, CPTO).