Rhinosimus viridiaeneus Randall 1838

• Main Author: Majka, Christopher G.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2006
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Curculionidae; Rhinosimus; Rhinosimus viridiaeneus; Newfoundland; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6261847; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/C7098248FF90FFEEFEDA8B9D31588E3B

Rhinosimus viridiaeneus Randall, 1838 NEW BRUNSWICK: Saint John Co.: Saint John, June 1900­07, W. McIntosh, NBM. Newly recorded in New Brunswick: widely distributed in Nova Scotia (Fig. 6). Recorded from Alaska and British Columbia on the Pacific coast and then from Ontario east to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland (Campbell 1991e); in the United States known from Maine and New Hampshire (Chandler 2001), south to Virginia in the east, and in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho in the west (Downie & Arnett 1996). Associated with Tilia (Tiliaceae) and Alnus spp. (Betulaceae) (Downie & Arnett 1996). In British Columbia observed to feed on the inner bark of Alnus rubra Bong. (Young 1991b). In Nova Scotia found in both deciduous and coniferous forests; sometimes on Betula papyrifera Marsh (Betulaceae). Published as part of Majka, Christopher G., 2006, The Mycteridae, Boridae, Pythidae, Pyrochroidae, and Salpingidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, pp. 37-51 in Zootaxa 1250 on page 46, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.172996