Cerceris fumipennis nest sites

Kent McFarland1, Trish Hanson2

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

Corresponding author(s): Kent McFarland (kmcfarland@vtecostudies.org)

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Resource Citation

Hanson T (2019): cerceris-fumipennis-nest-sites. v1. Vermont Center for Ecostudies. Dataset/Occurrence. http://ipt.vtecostudies.org/ipt-2.3.5/resource?r=cerceris-fumipennis-nest-sites&amp;v=1.0

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.

Keywords: Occurrence, Observation, Occurrence

Project details

Project title: Vermont Atlas of Life
Personnel: Kent McFarland

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/resource?r=cerceris-fumipennis-nest-sites

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: Cerceris fumipennis nest sites
Taxonomic ranks
Species: Cerceris fumipennis

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: State of Vermont, United States
Coordinates: 42°38'2.4''N and 45°5'49.2''N Latitude; 73°52'19.2''W and 71°9'28.8''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: June 1, 2016 - September 1, 2016

Methods

Method step description: Nesting areas were found through searching open areas with large bare dirt areas.
Study extent description: State of Vermont
Sampling description: Nest site areas used to monitor Buprestid beetle prey

Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive Cerceris fumipennis nest sites
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: http://ipt.vtatlasoflife.org/archive.do?r=cerceris-fumipennis-nest-sites
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: 2019-10-19
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