Corresponding author: Reginald P. Webster (
Academic editor: J. Klimaszewski
The
Lopes-Andrade C, Webster RP, Webster VL, Alderson CA, Hughes CC, Sweeney JD (2016) The Ciidae (Coleoptera) of New Brunswick, Canada: New records and new synonyms. In: Webster RP, Bouchard P, Klimaszewski J (Eds) The Coleoptera of New Brunswick and Canada: providing baseline biodiversity and natural history data. ZooKeys 573: 339–366. doi:
The systematics, taxonomy, and biology of the North American
The
During a study in New Brunswick to develop tools for improved detection of invasive species of
Alberta
Alaska
British Columbia
Manitoba
New Brunswick
Newfoundland and Labrador*
Nova Scotia
Northwest Territories
Nunavut
Ontario
Prince Edward Island
Quebec
Saskatchewan
Yukon Territory
*Newfoundland and Labrador are each treated separately under the current Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
It is important to emphasize that we propose new synonyms only for species with well-known morphological limits and that were previously studied by authors who conducted faunistic or revisionary works on the North American or the European
Some species names cited here were proposed by Mellié in a work published in two separate parts, and in the last decades, there has been much confusion in the literature regarding the publication year of his monograph. Authors have cited both parts of Mellié’s monograph as being published in either 1848 or 1849, or 1848 for the first part and 1849 for the second. Here, we used 1849 as the publication date for both parts of Mellié’s work, following
Atlantic Forestry Centre, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada
Coleção Entomológica do Laboratório de Sistemática e Biologia de
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
New Brunswick Museum, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Reginald P. Webster Collection, Charters Settlement, New Brunswick, Canada
University of Moncton, Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
Dorsal view of species from New Brunswick, Canada.
Dorsal view of species from New Brunswick, Canada.
Dorsal view of species from New Brunswick, Canada.
Species with a † are adventive to Canada, species with a * are Holarctic. The determination that a species was a new record was based on information in the print version of
A male was dissected, and its determination as
A male was dissected, and its genitalia compared with those of the closely related Palaearctic species
A male was dissected, and its genitalia compared with those of the closely related Palaearctic species
A drawing of the male tegmen of the North American
The genus
It is worth mentioning that the correct spelling of the genus name is
There is evidence that
The possible synonymy of
We thank Caroline Simpson for editing this manuscript, Anthony Davies for loaning the