Apion carrorum Anderson and Alonso-Zarazaga, New Species, the First Representative of the Genus Apion Herbst (Coleoptera: Brentidae: Apioninae) in North America

Apion carrorum Anderson and Alonso-Zarazaga, new species, is described from Plateau Mountain (50.20741° N,114.52101° W), Alberta, Canada along the edges of melting snowfields at about 2,400 m elevation. This represents the first description of a species of the genus Apion Herbst in North America. It...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:The Coleopterists Bulletin
Main Authors: Anderson, Robert S., Zarazaga, Miguel Ángel
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: BioOne 2019
Subjects:
Weevil
Taxonomy
Nearctic
Apion arcticum
Rumex
Canada
Plateau Mountain
Wrangel Island
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/223903
https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-73.4.889
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Summary:Apion carrorum Anderson and Alonso-Zarazaga, new species, is described from Plateau Mountain (50.20741° N,114.52101° W), Alberta, Canada along the edges of melting snowfields at about 2,400 m elevation. This represents the first description of a species of the genus Apion Herbst in North America. It appears that the species is most similar to Apion arcticum Korotyaev, known only from Wrangel Island in the Russian Far East. Candidate species of Rumex L. as the possible host plant for A. carrorum are discussed. Peer reviewed

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