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<mods:title>The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Majka, Christopher</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName authority="Wheeler, 1977" authorityName="Wheeler" authorityYear="1977" box="[140,536,1468,1495]" class="Insecta" family="Leiodidae" genus="Agathidium" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="378" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="hatchi">
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Wheeler, 1977
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<emphasis box="[140,344,1539,1565]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="378">Agathidium hatchi</emphasis>
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was reported by
<bibRefCitation author="Miller and Wheeler" box="[539,846,1539,1566]" firstAuthor="Miller" pageId="21" pageNumber="378" pagination="1 - 95" refId="ref24104" refString="Wheeler QD, Miller KB (2005) Slime-mold beetles of the genus Agathidium Panzer in North and Central America, Part I. Coleoptera: Leiodidae. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 290: 1 - 95." type="journal article" year="2005">Miller and Wheeler (2005)</bibRefCitation>
from a series of female specimens collected in northwestern
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and a single male specimen apparently collected in Frederickton (sic),
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(
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, R.C. Clark,
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University).
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wrote, that “The distribution of the species is unusual in that specimens are known from
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and
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, but from nowhere in between. The
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specimens (including the
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) are females and the
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specimen is a male. Therefore, there is some possibility the specimens represent different species ...,” and “It is also possible that the
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specimen is mislabeled.”
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The preponderance of evidence indicates that the record from
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is erroneous and resulted from a mislabeled specimen. Several reasons indicate this:
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a) for most of his career R.C. Clark worked on control of balsam wooly adelgid [
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(Ratzeburg)
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] and he never conducted research on
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(W. Varty, pers. comm.);
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b) the weather conditions on 20 March, 1961 Fredericton were fully winter-like. Temperatures ranged from -12.8°C (low) to -2.2°C (high) and there was
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of snow on the ground (
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), highly improbable circumstances in which to find a slime mold beetle such as
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;
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c) if R.C. Clark (who worked for the Canadian Forestry Service) had collected any
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specimens incidentally as part of his research, some specimens would have been deposited in the Atlantic Forestry Centre research collection in Fredericton. There are no such specimens in the collection (G. Smith and J. Sweeney, pers. comm.);
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d)
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lived in Fredericton for over three decades and it is highly unlikely that he would misspell the name of the capital city of
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as “Frederickton”;
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e) in the 1960s there were no scientific exchanges or research programs between Atlantic Forestry Centre and
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University (W. Varty, pers. comm.).
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Thus, there is no evidence that would indicate that this specimen was actually collected in
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. Accordingly, we remove this species form the
<collectingRegion country="Canada" name="New Brunswick" pageId="22" pageNumber="379">New Brunswick</collectingRegion>
faunal list.
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