Description
This chapter describes the Elateridae of Alberta (144 species), Saskatchewan (108 species), and Manitoba (109 species). It provides current names for species, as well as synonymized names that persist in the literature. Also discussed are the species that have been left out during recent changes to elaterid renaming and classification, although no new name combinations are given. The chapter outlines species distributions, biogeography where known, and the life histories of five common species: Aeolus mellillus (Say), Agriotes mancus (Say), Hypnoidus bicolor (Eschscholtz), Limonius californicus (Mannerheim), and Selatosomus aeripennis destructor (Brown). An examination of the seasonal movements and activity of larvae in response to soil temperature and moisture and moulting cycles is followed by an overview of past research on Prairie Province species. The chapter concludes with a discussion of current research needs and management issues.
Data Records
The data in this checklist resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 352 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
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How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
van Herk, Willem G. and Robert S. Vernon. 2014. Data for Click Beetles and Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Biological Survey of Canada. To the extent possible under law, the publisher has waived all rights to these data and has dedicated them to the Public Domain (CC0 1.0). Users may copy, modify, distribute and use the work, including for commercial purposes, without restriction.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: bb471298-dffb-44ff-9728-0cbb5a3897e3. Biological Survey of Canada publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Canadensys.
Keywords
Checklist; Inventoryregional; Coleoptera; Elateridae; checklist; taxonomy; Canada; provinces; prairies; open data
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Geographic Coverage
Canadian prairie provinces
Bounding Coordinates | South West [49.38, -120.59], North East [60.24, -86.48] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
No Description available
Order | Coleoptera (beetles) |
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Family | Elateridae (click beetles) |
Bibliographic Citations
- van Herk, W. G. and R. S. Vernon. 2014. Click Beetles and Wireworms (Coleoptera: Elateridae) of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. In Arthropods of Canadian Grasslands (Volume 4): Biodiversity and Systematics Part 2. Edited by D. J. Giberson and H. A. Cárcamo. Biological Survey of Canada. pp. 87-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.3752/9780968932179.ch2 doi:10.3752/9780968932179.ch2
Additional Metadata
Alternative Identifiers | http://dx.doi.org/10.5886/5drq7v8p |
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bb471298-dffb-44ff-9728-0cbb5a3897e3 | |
http://data.canadensys.net/ipt/resource?r=acg-elateridae |