Phyllobaenus verticalis Say 1835

• Main Author: Majka, Christopher G.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Cleridae; Phyllobaenus; Phyllobaenus verticalis; Breton Island; Canada; Prince Edward Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6252889; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/392B1921FFA2BF25FEF06FB6DA93DDB6

Phyllobaenus verticalis (Say, 1835) NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Canard, 24.vii.1956 & 10.vii.1959, H.T. Stultz, (3), ACNS; Canard, 5.iii.1959, H.T. Stultz, emerged, ACNS; Coldbrook, 21.viii.1956, C.D. Dondale, ACNS; Nictaux, 8.vii.1946, H.T. Stultz, ACNS; Lunenburg Co.: Bridgewater, 30.vi.1965, B. Wright, (4), NSMC; Pictou Co.: Salt Springs, 16.vii.2002, C.G. Majka, along river, CGMC. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Kings Co.: Woodville Mills, 30.vi.2003, C.G. Majka, shore of pond, (2), CGMC; Queens Co.: Millvale, 13.vii.2002, C.G. Majka, brackish marsh, CGMC. Newly recorded in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Scattered records from across the region except for Cape Breton Island (Figure 3). Several records from wet habitats. Knull (1951) records it on dead bittersweet ( Celastrus scandens L.) (Celastraceae) infested with cerambycid larvae; grape ( Vitis) (Vitaceae) infested with Phymatodes amoenus (Say) (Cerambycidae); birch ( Betula) (Betulaceae ) infested with Agrilus betulae Fisher (Buprestidae); linden ( Tilia) (Tiliaceae) infested with Eupogonius pubescens LeConte and Grammoptera exigua (Newman) (Cerambycidae); black oak ( Quercus velutina Lam.) infested with Agrilus geminatus (Say); and on hickory ( Carya) ( Juglandaceae) infested with wood-borers. Also recorded from a cynipid gall on white oak ( Quercus alba L.). Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2006, The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, pp. 31-46 in Zootaxa 1385 on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.175098