Xylophilus cylindriformis (Horn, 1871)**

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Eucnemidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 77-91 : 79-80

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2492

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Xylophilus cylindriformis (Horn, 1871)**
status

 

Xylophilus cylindriformis (Horn, 1871)** Map 1

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Jackson Falls, "Bell Forest", 46.2200°N, 67.7231°W, 12-19.VI.2008, 5-12.VII.2008, 12-19.VII.2008, R. P. Webster, mature hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel traps (7, AFC, RWC); same locality and habitat but 28. VI– 7.VII.2009, 7-14.VII.2009, 19-31.VII.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, Lindgren funnel traps (6, AFC, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Muona (2000) reported adults from a window trap and Malaise trap, otherwise little is known about the biology of this species. Levesque and Levesque (1993) collected a specimen in Québec at the boundary between a raspberry ( Rubus idaeus L.) plantation and a white pine ( Pinus strobus L.) woodland. Adults from New Brunswick were captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in a mature hardwood forest with American beech ( Fagus grandifolia Ehrh.), sugar maple ( Acer saccharum Marsh), and ash ( Fraxinu s sp.). Adults were captured during June and July.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

BC, ON, QC, NB ( Bousquet 1991; Muona 2000). Muona (2000) reported this species from California east to Wisconsin and New Hampshire in the United States.

Kingdom

Bacteria

Phylum

Proteobacteria

Class

Betaproteobacteria

Order

Burkholderiales

Family

Eucnemidae

SubFamily

Melasinae

Tribe

Xylobiini

Genus

Xylophilus