Vermont Buprestidae Survey

Trish Hanson1, Michael Bohne2, Kent McFarland3

1 Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, ; 2 USDA Forest Service, ; 3 Vermont Center for Ecostudies, PO Box 420, 05055, Norwich, United States

Corresponding author(s): Trish HansonMichael Bohne (mbohne@fs.fed.us), Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)

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Resource Citation

Hanson T, Bohne M (2021): Vermont Buprestidae Survey. v1.7. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=buprestidae&v=1.7

Abstract

The solitary parasitoid wasp Cerceris fumipennis provisions its nests with beetles from the Family Buprestidae. Nests formed by these solitary wasps are often located in non-social colonies within hard-packed, sandy, and exposed soils. Female wasps forage for prey on sunny summer days when many species of buprestid beetles are active. Taking buprestid beetle prey from wasps intercepted as they approached their nests is used to survey for the presence of many buprestid species. Biologists and citizen science volunteers surveyed C. fumipennis colonies for Buprestidae from 2009-2016. Additionally, native buprestids were taken from Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) purple traps and Green Lindgren funnel traps deployed around the state from 2008 - 2016. Historical records were also recorded from collections at the University of Vermont and the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation collections.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland
Study area descriptions/descriptor: State of Vermont, USA

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=buprestidae

Taxonomic coverage

Taxonomic ranks
Family: Buprestidae
Common names: Jewel Beetles

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: State of Vermont
Coordinates: 42°33'10.8''N and 45°7'12''N Latitude; 73°36'28.8''W and 71°16'44.4''W Longitude 

Methods

Method step description: See sampling description.
Study extent description: State of Vermont
Sampling description: The solitary parasitoid wasp Cerceris fumipennis provisions its nests with beetles from the Family Buprestidae. Nests formed by these solitary wasps are often located in non-social colonies within hard-packed, sandy, and exposed soils. Female wasps forage for prey on sunny summer days when many species of buprestid beetles are active. Taking buprestid beetle prey from wasps intercepted as they approached their nests is used to survey for the presence of many buprestid species. Biologists and citizen science volunteers surveyed C. fumipennis colonies for Buprestidae from 2009-2016. Additionally, native buprestids were taken from Emerald Ash Borer (Agrilus planipennis) purple traps and Green Lindgren funnel traps deployed around the state from 2008 - 2016. Historical records were also recorded from collections at the University of Vermont and the Vermont Forest, Parks and Recreation collections.
Quality control description: E.R. Hoebeke, Associate Curator of the Collection of Arthropods at Georgia Museum of Natural History, University of Georgia, determined the Vermont buprestids collected as part of a EAB survey in the Northeast. We retained 20 specimens of each species (when possible) and sent the rest to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Vermont Buprestidae Survey
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=buprestidae
Publication date of data: 2021-12-22
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2019-02-26
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Trish Hanson, Mary R. Burnham, Michael J. Bohne, and E. Richard Hoebeke "New State Records of Non-Target Buprestidae (Coleoptera) Detected in Emerald Ash Borer Traps in Vermont, USA," The Coleopterists Bulletin 73(3), 757-760, (22 September 2019). https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-73.3.757 https://doi.org/10.1649/0010-065X-73.3.757