Anticosti Island: a hot spot for Neospondylis upiformis (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) in eastern Canada?

ABSTRACT:

Background

During an inventory of insect diversity on Anticosti Island in 1993, we caught unprecedented numbers of Neospondylis upiformis (Mannerheim), a longhorned beetle rarely observed in eastern North America. All specimens were caught using 12-funnel Lindgren traps baited with 95% ethanol and α-pinene. This longhorned beetle was captured again in 2007 on Anticosti with the same traps. Other than that, seven specimens of N. upiformis were caught elsewhere in Quebec between 1993 and 2015. Only 14 specimens were found in the 45 most important insect collections of the province, the most recent specimen dating back to 1964.

New information

At least 90% of the captures came from old-growth balsam fir stands of the south-central part of the island. Seasonal flig

SUBMITTER: Hebert C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6062566 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature