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A New Species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) University of Nebraska - Lincoln DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Insecta Mundi Florida 2015 A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from nests of Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in northeastern Florida, USA, with new state records for species of Chrysobothris and a list of buprestid prey species taken by the wasp in Florida Richard L. Westcott Entomologist Emeritus, Plant Division Oregon Department of Agriculture Salem, Oregon, [email protected] Michael C. Thomas Florida State Collection of Arthropods, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi Westcott, Richard L. and Thomas, Michael C., "A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from nests of Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in northeastern Florida, USA, with new state records for species of Chrysobothris and a list of buprestid prey species taken by the wasp in Florida" (2015). Insecta Mundi. 923. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/insectamundi/923 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Center for Systematic Entomology, Gainesville, Florida at DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. It has been accepted for inclusion in Insecta Mundi by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln. INSECTA MUNDI A Journal of World Insect Systematics 0417 A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from nests of Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in northeastern Florida, USA, with new state records for species of Chrysobothris and a list of buprestid prey species taken by the wasp in Florida Richard L. Westcott Entomologist Emeritus, Plant Division Oregon Department of Agriculture Salem, Oregon 97301 USA Michael C. Thomas Florida State Collection of Arthropods Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services P.O. Box 147100 Gainesville, FL 32614-7100 USA Date of Issue: April 17, 2015 CENTER FOR SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY, INC., Gainesville, FL Richard L. Westcott and Michael C. Thomas A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from nests of Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in northeastern Florida, USA, with new state records for species of Chrysobothris and a list of buprestid prey species taken by the wasp in Florida Insecta Mundi 0417: 1–10 ZooBank Registered: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:A717F26A-30E5-4CC5-A2A2-3C6DF90C074F Published in 2015 by Center for Systematic Entomology, Inc. P. O. Box 141874 Gainesville, FL 32614-1874 USA http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/ Insecta Mundi is a journal primarily devoted to insect systematics, but articles can be published on any non-marine arthropod. Topics considered for publication include systematics, taxonomy, nomenclature, checklists, faunal works, and natural history. Insecta Mundi will not consider works in the applied sciences (i.e. medical entomology, pest control research, etc.), and no longer publishes book reviews or editorials. 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Nearns 0417: 1–10 2015 A new species of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz (Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from nests of Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae) in northeastern Florida, USA, with new state records for species of Chrysobothris and a list of buprestid prey species taken by the wasp in Florida Richard L. Westcott Entomologist Emeritus, Plant Division Oregon Department of Agriculture Salem, Oregon 97301 USA [email protected] Michael C. Thomas Florida State Collection of Arthropods Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services P.O. Box 147100 Gainesville, FL 32614-7100 USA michael.thomas@freshfromfl orida.com Abstract. A new species, Chrysobothris cerceripraeda Westcott and Thomas (Coleoptera: Buprestidae), is described from prey specimens found in nests of the ground-nesting wasp, Cerceris fumipennis Say (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae), near Jacksonville, Florida, USA. A listing for all species of Buprestidae taken as prey of the wasp in that state is provided, four of which, including the species described herein, are new. Notes are also given for four new state records for Buprestidae. Introduction According to Nelson et al. (2008) there are 141 species and three subspecies of Chrysobothris Eschscholtz in the USA., including one that is questionable. No additions to our fauna have been pub- lished since. By our count, we fi nd only 137 species, three represented by a single subspecies, two rep- resented by two subspecies. Including the new species described herein brings the species-group taxon total to 140 (138 species). By far the greatest diversity in the USA occurs west of the 100th Meridian. Although prey records—almost all are buprestids—for Cerceris fumipennis Say have been published in various papers over the years (e.g. Scullen and Wold 1969; Swink et al. 2013), it was not until the discovery of the exotic pest Agrilus planipennis Fairmaire in eastern North America (Cappaert et al. 2005) that special interest in that predator-prey relationship developed, with the idea that it would be of use in survey work to detect the pest (Careless et al. 2014; Marshall et al. 2005). Nelson et al. (2008) listed 19 species of Chrysobothris that occur in Florida, 14 of which have been recorded in the literature as prey of C. fumipennis, six of them in that state. As part of the ongoing Florida survey for Agrilus planipennis, during 2010 and 2011 the Florida Cooperative Agricultural Pest Survey (CAPS) conducted excavations of Cerceris fumipennis at nine nest sites in the northern Florida counties of Alachua (Gainesville, including the University of Florida), Duval (Pelotes Island Preserve), Gadsden (Quincy), Marion (Ocala National Forest, Fore Lake Rec. Area), Santa Rosa (Milton, SR4 at Cold Water Creek) and Wakulla (Apalachicola National Forest Road 13). Two nest excavations (Fig. 12–13) on Pelotes Island in Duval County yielded the new species that is described below. Also we provide a table for the 35 species of Buprestidae known to have been taken as prey in Florida, which includes four new prey records for the wasp. In all, it appears we have 16 new prey records for Florida, one of which, Chrysobothris scitula Gory, also is a new state record for the spe- cies. Notes are provided for three additional state records of Buprestidae taken in traps for woodboring beetles. 1 2 • INSECTA MUNDI 0417, April 2015 WESTCOTT AND THOMAS All specimens taken from Cerceris fumipennis nests by the Florida CAPS and of the new state records are deposited in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods (FSCA), except as noted for some paratypes of the new species. Collection abbreviations follow Evenhuis (2012). In the description below, features that are obvious from the fi gures, such as shape and comparative measurements, may not be included in the description. Measurement (to nearest 1/10th mm) of specimen length is from front of head to tips of elytra, and width is across
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