Stilbus apicalis
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher
name: Gimmel, Matthew
name: Langor, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Phalacridae
Stilbus
Stilbus apicalis

description: <i>Stilbus apicalis</i> (Melsheimer, 1844) <b>NEW BRUNSWICK: York Co.:</b> New Maryland, 45.83ºN 66.73ºW, 26.VI.2003, R.P. Webster, mixed forest, at light, (1, RWC). <b>NOVA SCOTIA: Annapolis Co.:</b> 19.VI.1995, J. Ogden, (1, NSNR); <b>Colchester Co.:</b> Bible Hill, 5.VIII.2004, 14.V.2005, 23.V.2005, 31.V.2005, K. Aikens, pasture, sweep net, (12, CBU). <b>PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.:</b> Harrington, 2.IX.2005, 8.IX.2005, M.E.M. Smith, barley fields, sweep net, (10, ACPE). <i>Stilbus apicalis</i> is newly recorded in Atlantic Canada (Fig. 3). The species has previously been recorded in eastern North America from Ontario and Maine, south to Florida, and west to Louisiana, Kansas, and Illinois; and in the west from British Columbia south through Idaho to California (Leng 1920; Campbell 1991; Downie and Arnett 1996; Chandler 2001; Gimmel 2008). Little is known about its bionomics except that individuals have been collected by sweeping grasses (Steiner 1984), a habitat and collection mode consistent with most of the specimens collected in Atlantic Canada. Specimens are also commonly collected at lights (White 1983). Dearborn and Donahue (1993) reported individuals from spruce (<i>Picea</i> sp.) in Chesuncook and Augusta, Maine. Steiner (1984) noted that populations are almost exclusively comprised of females, and considered that it is likely a surface feeding, mold grazing, facultatively parthenogenic species. Th e precise hosts of <i>S. apicalis</i> are unknown although some adults were found on an unidentified smut growing on panic grass, <i>P. dichotomiflorum</i> (Steiner 1984).
description: Published as part of <i>Majka, Christopher, Gimmel, Matthew &amp; Langor, David, 2008, The Phalacridae (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) of Canada: new records, distribution, and bionomics with a particular focus on the Atlantic Canadian fauna, pp. 209-220 in ZooKeys 2 (2)</i> on page 216, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.16, http://zenodo.org/record/576403
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