Antherophagus convexulus LeConte, 1863

Majka, Christopher & Langor, David, 2010, Contributions towards an understanding of the Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada, ZooKeys 35 (35), pp. 13-35 : 18

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.35.314
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3789550
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03950810-C117-FFF9-B5F7-FC24E274F53E
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Antherophagus convexulus LeConte, 1863
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Antherophagus convexulus was reported from both New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by Bousquet (1991). There are a number of records from both the mainland of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton Island (Fig. 1), however, we have not been able to locate voucher specimens or published records of this species from New Brunswick. We provisionally retain this species for the New Brunswick fauna (subject to confirmation) since it is also known from the neighbouring jurisdictions of Québec and Maine ( Procter 1946; Laplante et al. 1991), and is to be expected in the province. Antherophagus View in CoL species are phoretic on bumblebees ( Bombus View in CoL spp.) and are often found in their nests or at flowers where their larvae apparently feed on organic detritus ( Bousquet 1989; Leschen and Skelley 2002).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Cryptophagidae
Genus	Antherophagus