Further contributions to the staphylinid fauna of New Brunswick, Canada, and the USA, with descriptions of two new Proteinus species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
Author
Davies, Anthony E.
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Author
Bourdon, Caroline
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ZooKeys
2016
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31
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.573.7830
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.573.7830
1313-2970-573-31
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae
Stenus (Tesnus) formicetorum Mannerheim, 1843
Material examined.
New Brunswick, Albert Co., Caledonia Gorge P.N.A.,
45.7930°N
,
64.7764°W
, 1.VII.2011, R.P. Webster // Small rocky clear cold river margin (Caledonia Creek), sifting drift material (tree bud material) near eddy area (1 ♂, RWC). Restigouche Co., Wild Goose Lake, 420 m elev.,
47.8540°N
,
68.3219°W
, 7.VI.2011, R.P. Webster // Lake margin with emergent
Carex
and grasses, treading
Carex
and grasses (3 ♂, 5 ♀, RWC). York Co., Douglas, Currie Mountain,
45.9844°N
,
66.7592°W
, 27.V-10.VI.2013, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Mixed forest with
Quercus rubra
, Lindgren funnel trap in canopy of
Quercus rubra
(1 sex undetermined, AFC); Charters Settlement,
45.8456°N
,
66.7267°W
, 1.V.2010, R.P. Webster // Margin of beaver pond in leaf litter (1 ♂, RWC). Ontario, Manitouwadge, Black River, 18.IX.1989, under weeds in dried-up pool, T. Bakker (1 ♂, CNC).
Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
YK, AB, MB, ON, QC, NB (
Bousquet et al. 2013
). This species is newly recorded from ON and NB.
Natural history.
Most specimens of
Stenus formicetorum
were found along a lake margin with emergent vegetation of
Carex
and grasses. Adults were collected by treading vegetation into water. One individual was sifted from leaf litter along the margin of a beaver pond, one was sifted from drift material (tree bud material) near an eddy area along a small rocky, clear, cold river margin, and another adult was captured in a Lindgren funnel trap in the canopy of a red oak in a mixed forest. This species was collected in May, June, and July in NB, and September in ON.