Meligethes nigrescens Stephens 1830

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher, Webster, Reginald, Cline, Andrew
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Nitidulidae; Meligethes; Meligethes nigrescens; Yukon; Canada; British Columbia; Prince Edward Island; Siberia
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3793315; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793315

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