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Note on Two Forms of Hypolithus bicolor Esch. (Coleoptera: Elateridae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Russell Y. Zacharuk
Affiliation:
Entomology Section, Canada Department of Agriculture Research Laboratory, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

Extract

Collection and rearing records for 1951 to 1954 indicate that a parthenogenetic and a bisexual form of Hypolithus bicolor Esch. occur in Saskatchewan.

Near White Fox, in the northeastern area of the Mixedwood Section, approximately 2,000 beetles were collected from their hibernation cells in the soil and from the soil surface, in fields of native sod, summer-fallow, and crop, at various times during the frost-free periods. All the beetles were female. Sixty beetles reared from larvae collected in this area were also females. Similarly, there were no males in a collection of approximately 300 beetles from near Meadow Lake, in the northwestern area of the Mixedwood Section, and in numerous smaller collections made in other parts of this section. Eleven beetles, all females, were reared from eggs laid by beetles of this parthenogenetic form collected near White Fox during the last week in May, 1952. After a storage period of four months at 38°F., seven of these first generation beetles laid viable eggs without mating. No attempt was made to rear the second generation larvae to the beetle stage.

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Copyright
Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1958

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References

3 Classification by Halliday, W. E. D. 1937. A forest classification for Canada. Canada Dept. Mines Res., For. Surv. Bull. 89.Google Scholar