Meligethes nigrescens Stephens 1830

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher, Webster, Reginald, Cline, Andrew
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Nitidulidae; Meligethes; Meligethes nigrescens; Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; Prince Edward Island; Siberia
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793314; https://zenodo.org/record/3793314

Meligethes nigrescens Stephens, 1830 Albert Co.: Shepody National Wildlife Area, New Horton Section, 45.6940°N, 64.7000°W, 29.VI.2004, R.P. Webster, sweeping on dike near marsh, (3, RPW); Gloucester Co.: Hwy 11 at Nord R., 47.7873°N, 65.0796°W, R.P. Webster, salt marsh, sweeping, (1, RWC); Kent Co.: Richibucto, 30.VII.1982, L.H. Lutz, (1, NSAC). This Holarctic species is found throughout the Old World in the British Isles, Europe, North Africa, the Caucasus, Arabia, and east to central Siberia (Easton 1955; Hatch 1957). In Canada it is recorded from the Yukon and British Columbia east to Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island (Easton 1955; Majka and Cline 2006), and in the United States from Maine south to Maryland and west to Wisconsin, as well as in Oregon (Easton 1955; Price and Young 2006). The species is associated with a wide variety of plants, particularly Trifolium pratense L. (Fabaceae) (Easton 1955); Kirk-Spriggs (1996) also noted the host Trifolium repens L. (Fabaceae) in Great Britain, suggesting some specificity of the species on members of Trifoilum . Price and Young (2006), however, found it on Spirea sp. (Rosaceae) and Rhus sp. (Anacardiaceae). : Published as part of Majka, Christopher, Webster, Reginald & Cline, Andrew, 2008, New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada, pp. 337-356 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 349, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.23, http://zenodo.org/record/576398 : {"references": ["Easton AM (1955) A revision of the Nearctic species of the beetle genus Meligethes (Nitidulidae). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 104: 87 - 103.", "Hatch MH (1957) The North American status of Meligethes nigrescens Steph. (Nitidulidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 11: 65 - 66.", "Majka CG, Cline AR (2006) Th e Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Th e Canadian Entomologist 138: 314 - 332.", "Price MB, Young DK (2006) An annotated checklist of Wisconsin sap and short-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae, Kataretidae). Insecta Mundi 20 (1 - 2): 68 - 84.", "Kirk-Spriggs AH (1996) Pollen Beetles, Coleoptera: Kateretidae and Nitidulidae: Meligethinae. Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects. Vol 5, Part 6 a. Royal Entomological Society of London, 157 pp."]}