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>BUCHANANIUS SULCATUS (LECONTE) (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE: BARIDINAE) REARED FROM THE FRUITING BODIES OF THE ASCOMYCETE FUNGUS TRICHODERMA PELTATUM (BERK.) SAMUELS, JAKLITSCH, AND VOGLMAYR IN MARYLAND, USA
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BUCHANANIUS SULCATUS (LECONTE) (COLEOPTERA: CURCULIONIDAE: BARIDINAE) REARED FROM THE FRUITING BODIES OF THE ASCOMYCETE FUNGUS TRICHODERMA PELTATUM (BERK.) SAMUELS, JAKLITSCH, AND VOGLMAYR IN MARYLAND, USA
While collecting beetles associated with dead wood and fungi at the Patuxent Research Refuge in central Maryland, USA on 11 August 2012, WES noted a “series of tiny baridines on a puffballlike tan fungus on fallen beech branch” in a large tract of mixed mature forest. At least 20 of the weevils, including several mating pairs, were observed on, and appeared to be feeding at, the surface of two globular fruiting bodies, indicating a possible host association. Several were collected along with a small sample of the fungus, leaving the rest intact for later study. The weevils, Buchananius sulcatus (LeConte), were identified by JP with great interest, since no definite association had been confirmed among fungi and any group of “higher weevils” except for wood-boring Scolytinae and Platypodinae.
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