Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions
Author
Majka, Christopher
Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec, QC, Canada
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Leptacinus intermedius
Donisthorpe, 1936
NEW BRUNSWICK
:
York
Co.:
Charters Settlement,
45.8395 N
,
66.7391 W
,
26.IX.2005
,
2.V.2004
,
16.X.2004
(
2 specimens
),
21.IV.2004
,
16.IX.2005
,
27.VIII.2005
, R.P. Webster, in well-decayed compost, (7, RWC).
Majka and Klimaszewski (2008)
removed this species from the New Brunswick faunal list, based on a misidentified specimen reported in
Majka and Ogden (2006)
. However, the above records of R.P. Webster establish the presence of
L. intermedius
in the province (
Fig. 5
). Consequently,
L. intermedius
is reinstated to the faunal list of New Brunswick. Th e earliest North American specimens are from
1903 in
Québec (
Smetana 1982
). Widely distributed in Europe and found in North Africa and
Turkey
(
Herman 2001
;
Smetana 2004b
), it has been recorded in a wide variety of decompositional environments including dung, compost, and decaying vegetable matter (
Smetana 1982
).