New distribution records for two species of Cryptolestes Ganglbauer (Coleoptera: Laemophloeidae)

Authors

Michael C. Thomas, Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FLFollow

Date of this Version

March 2005

Comments

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/. Copyright © by M. Thomas.

Abstract

Suction traps being used to monitor aphid populations in Florida have produced specimens of two exotic species of Cryptolestes, suggesting both species are newly established in the “wild” in the United States. Examination of other collections has produced other new country records for one of the species. Specimens representing the Florida records are in the Florida State Collection of Arthropods; other specimens are in the collection of Rudolf Schuh, Vienna, Austria.