Phalacrus politus Melsheimer 1844

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher, Gimmel, Matthew, Langor, David
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Phalacridae; Phalacrus; Phalacrus politus; Canada; Hayes; Chandler; Augusta; Beaver Pond; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793132; https://zenodo.org/record/3793132

Phalacrus politus Melsheimer, 1844 NEWFOUNDLAND : Terra Nova National Park, Salton Brook, 21.VI.1978, (15, MUN); Gander, 20.VI.1981, (1, MUN); South Pond, 27.VI.1980, Brennan and D. Larson, beaver pond, (1, MUN). Phalacrus politus is newly recorded in Canada (Fig. 1). Th e species is widely distributed in the eastern United States from Maine south to Florida and west to Louisiana, Missouri, and Michigan (Casey 1916; Leng 1920; Leonard 1928; Downie and Arnett 1996; Chandler 2001; Gimmel 2008). Specimens of Phalacrus politus were reported on sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench, Poaceae) by Hayes (1920). Steiner (1984) found adults and larvae in the powdery galls of corn smut, Ustilago maydis (Dc.) Cda growing on corn, Zea mays L., and in an unidentified smut on the panic grass, Panicum dichotomiflorum Michx. (Poaceae). Specimens of Phalacrus politus have also been collected in western Maine [Augusta, 21.VIII.1943, A.E. Brower, (1, UNH); Brunswick, 17.IX.1939, A.E. Brower, (2, UNH); Gilead, 26.VIII.1956, A.E. Brower, (1, UNH); Lexington, 13.VII.1959, A.E. Brower, (1, UNH)]. : Published as part of Majka, Christopher, Gimmel, Matthew & Langor, David, 2008, The Phalacridae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) of Canada: new records, distribution, and bionomics with a particular focus on the Atlantic Canadian fauna, pp. 209-220 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 212, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.16, http://zenodo.org/record/576403 : {"references": ["Casey TL (1916) Phalacridae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 7: 35 - 86.", "Leng CW (1920) Catalogue of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. John D. Sherman Jr., Mount Vernon, New York, 470 pp.", "Leonard MD (1928) A list of the insects of New York, with a list of the spiders and certain other allied groups. Cornell University Agriculture Experiment Station, Memoir 101: 1 - 1121.", "Downie NM, Arnett RH, Jr (1996) Th e Beetles of Northeastern North America, Volumes 1 and 2. Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, Florida, 1721 pp.", "Chandler DS (2001) University of New Hampshire Insect and Arachnid Collections http: // colsa 1. unh. edu: 591 / unhinsects. htm [accessed 25 July 2008]", "Gimmel ML (2008) Checklist of the Coleoptera of Louisiana. http: // entomology. lsu. edu / lsam / coleopteraoflouisiana / lacoleoptera. htm [accessed 26 August 2008]", "Steiner WE, Jr (1984) A review of the biology of phalacrid beetles (Coleoptera). In Wheeler Q, Blackwell M (Eds) Fungus-Insect Relationships: Perspectives in Ecology and Evolution. Columbia University Press, New York, 424 - 455."]}