Abstract
The beetles of the family Cleridae in the Maritime Provinces of Canada are reviewed and new provincial records are reported. As a result, 16 taxa (15 species and one additional subspecies) are now known to occur in the region. A total of 19 new provincial records are reported; seven from Prince Edward Island, nine from Nova Scotia, and three from New Brunswick. Three species, Zenodosus sanguineus (Say), Necrobia rufipes (DeGeer), and Necrobia violacea (Linnaeus) are newly recorded in the Maritime Provinces. The bionomics of the fauna is briefly reviewed; species found in the region fall into one of five ecological groups. The composition of the fauna is also examined in relation to subjects such as island faunas, the northeastern North American regional fauna, and adventive species.References
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Evans, J.D. (1899) List of Coleoptera from Halifax, N.S. The Canadian Entomologist, 31, 320–321.
Evenhuis, N.L. & Samuelson, G.A. (2006) Abbreviations for insect and spider collections of the world. Available from: http://hbs.bishopmuseum.org/codens/codens-inst.html (accessed 28 August 2006)
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Knull, J.N. (1951) The checkered beetles of Ohio (Coleoptera: Cleridae). Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin, 8(42), 268–350.
Laplante, S., Bousquet, Y., Bélanger, P. & Chantal, C. (1991) Liste des espèces de Coléoptères du Québec. Fabreries, supplément 6. 236 pp.
Majka, C.G. (2006) A guide to the Cleridae of Atlantic Canada. Available from: http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Environment/NHR/Cleridae.html (accessed 28 August 2006)
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Majka, C.G. & Pollock, D.A. (2006) Understanding Saproxylic Beetles: New Records of Tetratomidae, Melandryidae, Synchroidae, and Scraptiidae from the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea). Zootaxa, 1248, 45–68.
Marske, K.A. & Ivie, M.A. (2003) Beetle fauna of the United States and Canada. The Coleopterists Bulletin, 57, 495–503.
McNamara, J. (1991) Family Cleridae: checkered beetles. In: Bousquet, Y. (Ed.), Checklist of the Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Publication 1861/E. pp. 208–211.
Opitz, W. (2002) Cleridae Latreille 1804. In: Arnett, R.H., Jr., Thomas, M.C., Skelley, P.E. & Frank, J.H. (Eds.), American Beetles, Volume 2: Polyphaga: Scarabaeoidea through Curculionoidea. CRC Press, Boca Raton, USA. pp. 267–280.
Sikes, D.S. (2003) The beetle fauna of the state of Rhode Island, USA (Coleoptera): 656 new state records. Zootaxa, 340, 1–38.
Smith, K.G.V. (1986) A Manual of Forensic Entomology. British Museum of Natural History, London, England. pp. 205.
Speight, M.C.D. (1989) Saproxylic Invertebrates and their Conservation. Council of Europe. Strasbourg, France. 79 pp.
Wickham, H.F. (1895) The Coleoptera of Canada: XIII. The Cleridae of Ontario and Québec. The Canadian Entomologist, 27, 247–253.