Mecinus janthinus (Germar, 1821) Douglas & Bouchard & Anderson & Tonnancour & Vigneault & Webster, 2013

Douglas, Hume, Bouchard, Patrice, Anderson, Robert S., Tonnancour, Pierre de, Vigneault, Robert & Webster, Reginald P., 2013, New Curculionoidea (Coleoptera) records for Canada, ZooKeys 309, pp. 13-48 : 22-23

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.309.4667
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B09DBF67-1413-C5EB-0A5B-BE2140697520
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scientific name	Mecinus janthinus (Germar, 1821)
status	new to Quebec

Treatment

Mecinus janthinus (Germar, 1821) new to Quebec

Note.

This adventive Palaearctic stem-mining weevil was introduced for the biological control of toadflaxes, Linaria spp. ( Scrophulariaceae ), and was known from Alberta, British Columbia, and Nova Scotia ( Majka et al. 2007b, De Clerck-Floate and Cárcamo 2011).

Specimen data.

Quebec: MRC Marguerite-D’Youville, Varennes ( Verchères), 30.vii.2011, 9.v., 12.v., 14.v., 24.v.2012, 1.vi.2012, C. Chantal (11, CCCH); MRC Pierre-De Saurel, Sorel-Tracy, 14.v.2012, C. Chantal (1, CCCH).

References

De Clerck-Floate, RA, Carcamo, HA, 2011. Chapter 12. Biocontrol arthropods: new denizens of Canada's grassland agroecosystems. In: Floate, KD, Ed., Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands. Vol. 2: Inhabitants of a Changing Landscape, Biological Survey of Canada: 291 - 321

Majka, CG, Anderson, RS, McCorquodale, DB, 2007b. The weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, II: New records from Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island and regional zoogeography. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 397 - 442, 10.4039/n06-021