Title
Survey of the Microcoryphia (Insecta) of the northeastern United States and adjacent provinces of Canada
Title Variants
Alternative:
Microcoryphia
Related Titles
Series:
American Museum novitates, no. 2701
By
Wygodzinsky, Petr, 1916-1987
Schmidt, Kathleen
Type
Book
Material
Published material
Publication info
New York, N.Y, American Museum of Natural History, c1980
Notes
Title from caption.
"September 22, 1980."
A survey of the Microcoryphia of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania as well as the New England states and the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland showed four species present. Petrobius brevistylis and Trigoniophthalmus alternatus were probably introduced from Europe on ballast; Pedetontus saltator, new species, and Machiloides petauristes, new species, are native. Petrobius canadensis Paclt, 1969, is synonymized with Petrobius brevistylis Carpenter, 1913. The presence of Petrobius maritimus (Leach) in North America is not confirmed. Machilis variabilis Say, described from 'North America,' is not identifiable. Males were not found among the hundreds of specimens of North American Trigoniophthalmus alternatus examined, making a parthenogenetic mode of reproduction highly likely. Males were rare in Petrobius brevistylis (approximately 3 percent of all specimens examined), and were not discovered among the limited material of the new species of Pedetontus and Machiloides"--P. [1].
Subjects
Archaeognatha
,
Canada, Eastern
,
Insects
,
Northeastern States
Call Number
QL1 .A436 no.2701, 1980
Language
English
Identifiers
OCLC:
6757313
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