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 text ZooKeys 2008 2008-09-04 2 2 151 174 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.2.5 fa2a6380-86e0-4589-8cb9-2438a8ede5c7 1313–2970 576407 Ilyobates bennetti Donisthorpe, 1914 NOVA SCOTIA : Colchester Co. : Bible Hill , 13-19.VI.2007 , C.W. D’Orsay , pasture, pitfall trap , (3, CBU ) ; Bible Hill , 3-9.VII.2007 , C.W. D’Orsay , pasture, pitfall trap , (2, CBU ) ; Hants Co. : Upper Rawdon , 26.VI.2008 , J. Renkema , blueberry field, pitfall trap , (1, CGM ) . Ilyobates bennetti is newly recorded for Nova Scotia and in the Maritime Provinces ( Fig. 1 ). Figure 2 provides a dorsal habitus photograph. Th e only previous records of this species in North America are two specimens from Ste. Clothilde (1981) and Fig. 1. Distribution of Ilyobates bennetti , Meotica exilis , Meotica “ pallens ,” Lathrobium fulvipenne , and Oxytelus sculptus in eastern Canada . Frelighsburg (1984) ( Québec ) ( Assing (1999) . It is very widely distributed in Europe and in the Caucasus. In Europe it occurs in a variety of open habitats, particularly synanthropic ones, such as urban meadows, lawns, fallow areas, gardens, strip mines, and in pioneer vegetation; it is also found in swamps, bogs, flood plains, riverbanks, meadows, grasslands, in leaf litter, moss, grass, compost, rotting debris, and under reeds and ferns ( Assing 1999 ).