Enoclerus nigripes subsp. rufiventris Spinola 1844

• Main Author: Majka, Christopher G.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Cleridae; Enoclerus; Enoclerus nigripes; Enoclerus nigripes rufiventris (spinola; 1844); Breton Island; Canada
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6252903; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6252903

Enoclerus nigripes rufiventris (Spinola, 1844) NEW BRUNSWICK: Kings Co.: Grand Bay, 26.v. 2001, D.F. McAlpine, NBM; Yo r k Co.: Charters Settlement, 26.vi. 1999, R.P. Webster, RPWC. NOVA SCOTIA: 29 specimens examined from Colchester, Halifax, Hants, Kings, and Yarmouth counties. The earliest record is from 1950 (Kings Co.: Aldershot, 15.v. 1950, H.T. Stultz, (2), ACNS). Newly recorded in Nova Scotia: scattered distribution in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia except for Cape Breton Island (Figure 6). In Point Pleasant Park, Nova Scotia, found in association with the galleries of Scolytinae feeding on red spruce (Picea rubens) and white pine (Pinus strobus). The most abundant scolytines found in these galleries (75 % of individuals) are Hylurgops rugipennis pinifex, Trypodendron lineatum, and Polygraphus rufipennis in spruce, and Ips pini and Pityogenes hopkinsi in pine (C. Majka, unpublished data). Bionomics as per E. n. nigripes (above) (Knull 1951). 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 page 41, DOI:10.5281/zenodo.175098