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

• 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

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...