The ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: review of collecting, new records, and observations on composition, zoogeography, and historical origins
Author
Majka, Christopher G.
Author
Bousquet, Yves
Author
Westby, Susan
text
Zootaxa
2007
1590
1
36
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.273915
3c260fb5-9519-4a0e-8a62-de99f2840831
1175-5326
273915
Stenolophus carbo
Bousquet, 1993
In the context of reviewing the carabid fauna of the region, it is worth drawing attention to this species, which is known in Atlantic
Canada
solely from a record (as
S. carbonarius
(Dejean))
reported by
Lindroth (1954
,
1968
) on the basis of a specimen observed by him in a cattail (
Typha
) swamp in Waverly (on the outskirts of Halifax), Nova
Scotia
, in
May 1951
, which subsequently escaped. Thus, there is no voucher specimen to substantiate the record and there are otherwise no Canadian records of this species east of Ontario. There has been some subsequent collecting of
Carabidae
in Waverley (D.C. Ferguson and B. Wright, NSMC), and extensive collecting of
Carabidae
in Halifax and environs, and no further specimens have been found. Bearing this in mind, and pending further fieldwork,
S. carbo
should be regarded as doubtful in Nova
Scotia
, and consequently the region as a whole.