Epuraea rufa
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher
name: Webster, Reginald
name: Cline, Andrew
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Nitidulidae
Epuraea
Epuraea rufa

description: <i>Epuraea rufa</i> (Say, 1825) <b>Queens Co.:</b> Scotchtown near Indian Point, 45.8762°N, 66.1816°W, 5.VI.2004, R.P. Webster, margin of lake, under drift material, (2, NBM, RWC); same locality, 19.IX.2006, oak forest near lake, in decaying polypore fungi, (1, NBM); <b>Saint John Co.:</b> Saint John, VII. 1900-07, W. McIntosh, (1, NBM); <b>Sunbury Co.:</b> near Sunpoke Lake, 45.7658°N, 66.5546°W, 27.VII.2007, R.P. Webster, oak forest, m. v. light, (7, NBM, RWC); Maugerville: Portobello Creek National Wildlife Area, 45.8992°N, 66.4248°W, 7.V.2004, 27.V.2004, silver maple forest, in moist leaves on margin of vernal pond (12, RWC, NBM); same locality, 18.VI.2004, 17.VII.2004, R.P. Webster, silver maple forest, UVlight, (4, RWC); Acadia Research Forest, 45.9816°N, 66.3374°W, 18.VI.2007, R.P. Webster, mixed forest, sifting leaf litter, (2, NBM, RWC); Lakeville Corner, 45.9013°N, 66.2565°W, 27.VIII.2006, R. P. Webster, silver maple forest, on corncobs, (2, NBM); <b>York Co.:</b> Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 28.VI.2005, R.P. Webster, mixed forest, m. v. light, (1, NBM); Douglas, Keswick R. at Rt. 105, 45.9943°N, 66.8337°W, 18.VI.2004, R.P. Webster, silver maple forest, under debris near margin of small pool, (2, RWC); Fredericton, Saint John River, 4.VII.2004, R.P. Webster, margin of river, drift material, (2, RWC). <i>Epuraea rufa</i> has been recorded in Canada from Ontario and Québec (McNamara 1991), and in the United States from New Hampshire south to Georgia, west to Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, and Minnesota, and in Washington and Oregon (Parsons 1943; Kirejtshuk and Pakaluk 1996; Chandler 2001). The species is found in leaf litter, at sap, in fungi, on tree bark, and on driftwood and was also reared from fallen seeds of sugar maple (<i>Acer saccharum</i> Marsh., Aceraceae) (Parsons 1943; Price and Young 2006).
description: Published as part of <i>Majka, Christopher, Webster, Reginald &amp; Cline, Andrew, 2008, New records of Nitidulidae and Kateretidae (Coleoptera) from New Brunswick, Canada, pp. 337-356 in ZooKeys 2 (2)</i> on pages 345-346, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.23, http://zenodo.org/record/576398
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