Telmatophilus americanus LeConte 1863

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher, Langor, David
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Cryptophagidae; Telmatophilus; Telmatophilus americanus; Canada; British Columbia; Todd; Boland; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3789564; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3789564

Telmatophilus americanus LeConte, 1863 NEWFOUNDLAND: St. John’s, Oxen Pond Botanical Park, September, 2000, S. Lilly, Biology 4150 (1, MUN). NEW BRUNSWICK: Albert Co.: Mary’s Point, August 21, 2003, C.G. Majka, coastal marsh (1, CGMC); York Co.: Canning-Scotchtown, June 25, 2003, R.P. Webster, oak forest, at light (1, RPWC). NOVA SCOTIA: Cumberland Co.: Amherst, June 6, 1993, J. Ogden (1, NSNR); Amherst, June 24, 1994, J. Ogden (1, NSNR); Amherst Marsh, July 24, 1989, J. Ogden, marsh plants, sweep netting (6, NSNR); Amherst Marsh, June 11, 1993, J. Ogden, marsh plants, sweep netting (1, NSNR); Pictou Co.: McLellan’s Brook, June 16, 1988, E. Georgeson (1, NSMC). Telmatophilus americanus is newly recorded in insular Newfoundland, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (Fig. 1). It has previously been recorded in Canada from British Columbia to Québec, south to Colorado, Indiana, and New York in the United States (Bousquet 1991; Downie and Arnett 1996). It is found on the flowers of Sparganium spp. (Sparganiaceae) (Hatch 1961; Leshen and Skelley 2002). Blatchley (1910) also reported it from arrow arum (Peltandra virginica L., Araceae). Both Sparganium fluctuans (Morong) B.L. Robins and S. angustifolium Michx. (Sparganiaceae) occur in the area of the Oxen Pond Botanical Park where T. americanus was collected in Newfoundland (Todd Boland, pers. comm.). Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Langor, David, 2010, Contributions towards an understanding of the Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 13-35 in ZooKeys 35 (35) on pages 28-29, DOI:10.3897/zookeys.35.314, http://zenodo.org/record/576615