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Review of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from eastern Canada
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Review of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from eastern Canada
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Jan Klimaszewski, David Langor, Christopher G. Majka, Patrice Bouchard, Yves Bousquet, Laurent LeSage, Aleš Smetana, Patricia Sylvestre, Georges Pelletier, Anthony Davies, Pierre DesRochers, Henri Goulet, Reginald Webster & Jon Sweeney
Sofia–Moscow 2010 Review of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from eastern Canada by Jan Klimaszewski 1, David Langor 2, Christopher G. Majka 4, Patrice Bouchard 5, Yves Bousquet 5, Laurent LeSage 5, Aleš Smetana 5, Patricia Sylvestre 1, Georges Pelletier 1, Anthony Davies 5, Pierre DesRochers 1, Henri Goulet 5, Reginald Webster 3 & Jon Sweeney 3
1) Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P.E.P.S., P.O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Quebec, Canada G1V 4C7 2) Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320-122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 3S5 3) Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Atlantic Forestry Centre, 1350 Regent Street, P.O. Box 4000, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5P7 4) Natural History Resources, 6252 Jubilee Road, Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 2G5 5) Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K1A 0C6
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Contents
Introduction 9
Material and methods 15
Results 17
Checklist of taxa with adventive species in eastern Canada (in taxonomic order) 21
Key to families of Coleoptera with adventive species recorded from eastern Canada 25
Review of families, adventive species and literature 37
Acknowledgements 192
References 193
Index of families, genera and species listed in the text 229
Plates 241
Review of adventive species of Coleoptera (Insecta) recorded from eastern Canada 9
Introduction
For as long as entomologists have turned their attention to Coleoptera in eastern Can- ada, the subject of adventive species has been a topic of considerable interest. In the fi rst paper about Coleoptera from eastern Canada, Kirby (1837) listed eleven adven- tive species including Pterostichus melanarius (Illiger), Philonthus politus (Linnaeus), Philonthus ventralis (Gravenhorst), Attagenus pellio L