Hypomedon debilicornis (Wollaston, 1857)*

Bedard, Nicolas, Brunke, Adam, Bloin, Pierrick & Leclerc, Ludovic, 2024, New records of rove beetles from the Province of Quebec, and additional provincial records in Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), ZooKeys 1196, pp. 303-329 : 303

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1196.118698

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BACE4334-CEC3-48F2-A9A1-A77D1F106FD3

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0D47F57C-C87B-52C7-9EFF-B3A457D8722B

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scientific name

Hypomedon debilicornis (Wollaston, 1857)*
status

 

Hypomedon debilicornis (Wollaston, 1857)* View in CoL

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Note.

As reported by Schülke and Smetana (2015), this cosmopolitan species has been recorded from Nearctic, Neotropical, Palearctic, Oriental, and Australian regions. Notably, this species exhibits parthenogenesis wherein females evolved without sexual reproduction, a factor that is believed to have facilitated its spread ( Owen and Allen 2000). The species can be distinguished from other Medonina in eastern Canada by its pale body, small but protruding eyes, transverse subapical antennomeres, smooth lateral pronotal margins and lack of velvety appressed pubescence on the forebody. We here extend its distribution northward and newly report the species from Quebec and Canada.

Specimen data.

Canada: QUEBEC - MRC Marguerite-D’Youville, Saint-Amable (45.6431, -73.3341), 31.VIII.2023, L. Leclerc, by sifting wood chips heap (2, CNC; 5, LLC; 1, PBC; 1, NBC).

Distribution in Canada.

QC - New to Canada and Quebec.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Hypomedon