New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada
Author
Douglas, Hume
Entomology, Ottawa Plant Laboratories, Canadian Food Inspection Agency, Building 18, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON, Canada, K 1 A 0 C 6
Author
Bouchard, Patrice
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K 1 A 0 C 6
bouchardpb@agr.gc.ca
Author
Anderson, Robert S.
Canadian Museum of Nature, P. O. Box 3443, Station D, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K 1 P 6 P 4
Author
Tonnancour, Pierre de
22, 5 e avenue, Terrasse-Vaudreuil, Quebec, Canada, J 7 V 3 P 5
Author
Vigneault, Robert
16 Mont St-Pierre, Oka, Quebec, Canada, J 0 N 1 E 0
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
24 Mill Stream Drive, Charters Settlement, New Brunswick, Canada, E 3 C 1 X 1
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.309.4667
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.309.4667
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Asperosoma echinatum (Fall, 1917)
new to Ontario
Note.
This species (
Fig. 1
) is associated with the native grassland forb
Heuchera richardsoni
R. Br. (
Saxifragiaceae
) (
Fall 1917
) and was previously known only from Manitoba (
McNamara 1991
). This species is at present a Canadian endemic, although it may also exist in USA. Targeted collecting efforts at other Ontario sites have not yielded additional specimens.
Specimen data.
Ontario:
Essex Co., Windsor, Burnt Prairie, v.2001, S. Paiero, CNC COLEOPT #04-5422 (1, CMNC).
Figure
1.
Dorsal habitus drawing of
Asperosoma echinatum
(Fall, 1917), a species to-date only known from Canada. Scale line = 1mm.