Anisotoma basalis

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher, Langor, David
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Plantae; Tracheophyta; Magnoliopsida; Gentianales; Apocynaceae; Anisotoma; Anisotoma basalis; Canada; Lone; Verte; Baie Verte; Abraham Lake; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3793377; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793377

Anisotoma basalis (LeConte, 1853) NEW BRUNSWICK: Charlotte Co.: St. George, 5.VII.1963, R.C. Clarke, window trap, (1, CFNL). NEWFOUNDLAND: 30 miles south of Glenwood, 22.VI.1988, (1, MUN); Baie Verte, 20.VI.1988 and 22.VI.1988, P. Dixon, malaise trap, (2, CFNL). NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax Co.: Abraham Lake, 16-29.VII.1997, D.J. Bishop, oldgrowth red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Pockwock Lake, 15-30. VI.1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Inverness Co.: Lone Shieling, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 11-13.VI.1983, H. Goulet, forest, malaise trap, (1, CNC); Lone Shieling, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 11.VII.1983, J.R. Vockeroth, forest, malaise trap, (1, CNC); MacKenzies Mountain, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 19.VI.1983, Y. Bousquet, pan trap, (1, CNC); MacKenzies Mountain, Cape Breton Highlands National Park, 7.VII.1983, J.R. Vockeroth, malaise trap, (3, CNC); Lunenburg Co.: Card Lake, 16-29.VII.1997, D.J. Bishop, old-growth red spruce-hemlock forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC); Queens Co.: Medway River, 13.VII.1993, J. and T. Cook, car net, (1, JCC); Yarmouth Co.: Wellington, 15-24.VII.1993, J. and T. Cook, flight-intercept trap, (1, JCC); Wellington, 1-7.VI.1993, J. and T. Cook, mixed coastal forest, flight-intercept trap, (2, JCC). Anisotoma basalis is newly recorded in New Brunswick and Newfoundland (Fig. 8). It is listed as occurring in Nova Scotia by Peck (1991). Adults have been found between April and September. Slime mold hosts include Stemonitis axifera, S. fusca, Stemonitis splendens Rostaf, and Fuligo sp. (Wheeler 1979). Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Langor, David, 2008, The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography, pp. 357-402 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on pages 382-383, DOI:10.3897/zookeys.2.56, http://zenodo.org/record/576397