Myrmedophila americana (LeConte, 1879)**

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Sphindidae, Erotylidae, Monotomidae, and Cryptophagidae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 169-192 : 184

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2466

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Myrmedophila americana (LeConte, 1879)**
status

 

Myrmedophila americana (LeConte, 1879)** Map 19 View Map 19

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Restigouche Co., Dionne Brook P.N.A., 47.9064°N, 68.3441°W, 30.V-15.VI.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster, old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, NBM); same locality and collectors but 47.9030°N, 68.3503°W, 27.VI-14.VII.2011, old-growth northern hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

This species is myrmecophilous and associated with Formica sp. ( Bousquet 1989). The two adults from New Brunswick were captured in Lindgren funnel traps deployed in an old-growth northern hardwood forest and an old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest. This species was collected during June and July.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

AK, YT, AB, MB, QC, NB ( Bousquet 1989).