Ptiliidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada (Coleoptera): new records and bionomic notes Author Majka, Christopher G. Author Sörensson, Mikael text Zootaxa 2007 1423 27 38 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.175704 62a46385-f966-424b-9303-8b44584171df 1175-5326 175704 Ptenidium nitidum (Heer, 1841) Material. NOVA SCOTIA : Cumberland Co.: Smith Brook, 29.viii.1988 , B. Wright, mixed forest: leaf litter, NSMC ; Halifax Co.: Burnside, 8.vii.2003 , C. Cormier, on dead pig, NSMC . TABLE 1. Ptiliidae of the Maritime Provinces of Canada.

Zoogeographic	Regional distribution in	Continental
NB PEI	NS	Origin	Northeastern North America	Distribution
Ptiliinae Ptiliini
Ptenidium nitidum (Heer) Ptenidium pusillum (Gyllenhal) Ptenidium speculifer Matthews	* *	* *	Palearctic Palearctic Nearctic	NB, NH, NS, QC MA, NB, NS, ON, PE, QC NF, NH, NS, ON, QC	1 1,4,5 1,2
Pteryx NEA sp. 7 Ptiliola species Ptiliolum NEA sp. 2	*	* * *	Nearctic? Nearctic	NS NB, NS	1,2 1
Ptiliolum fuscum (Erichson)	*	Holarctic	NH, NS, ON, QC	1,4,5

Nanosellini Cylindroselloides dybasi Hall	*	*	Nearctic	NB, NS, PE, QC	1
Acrotrichinae Acrotrichis aspera (Haldeman)	*	Nearctic	MA, NF, NH, NS, ON, QC	1,2,3,4,5
Acrotrichis castanea (Matthews) Acrotrichis cognata (Matthews) Acrotrichis fascicularis (Herbst)	*	Nearctic Nearctic Palearctic	NH, NS, ON, QC NB, NH, NS, ON, QC NB, NS	1,3,4,5 1,4,5 1

Acrotrichis grandicollis (Manner- heim)	*	?	NB, NS, NY, ON, QC	1,4,5
Acrotrichis haldemani (LeConte) * Acrotrichis insularis (Mäklin) * Acrotrichis intermedia (Gillmeis- * ter)	* * *	Nearctic Nearctic Holarctic	NB, NS, RI NB, NS, QC NB, NS, ON, QC	1 1,4,5 1,5
Acrotrichis josephi (Matthews) *	*	Nearctic	NS	1,4
Acrotrichis longipennis (Casey) Acrotrichis parva Rosskothen	*	Nearctic Holarctic	MA, NB, NH, NS, NY, ON, QC, VT NB, ON, QC	1,2,5 1,4,5
Acrotrichis sericans (Heer) Acrotrichis silvatica Rosskothen Acrotrichis thoracica (Waltl)	*	Palearctic Holarctic?	MA, NB, NH, ON, QC MA, NB, NH, NS, ON, QC MA, NB, ON, QC	1,3,4,5 1,2,5 1

Acrotrichis volans (Motschulsky) Acrotrichis xanthocera (Matthews)	* *	Holarctic Nearctic	MA, NB, NH, NS, ON, QC, VT 1,2,3,4,5 NH, NS, ON, QC, NS 1,2,3,4,5
Acrotrichis undescribed sp. 1 Acrotrichis undescribed sp. 2 * Acrotrichis undescribed sp. 3	* * *	Nearctic Nearctic Nearctic	NH, NS 1 NB, NS 1 NH, NS 1
Ptiliopycna moerens (Matthews) Nephanes species *	*	*	Nearctic?	MA, NH, ON, PE, QC 1,5
Total 19	3	25

* = newly recorded; = previously recorded; Northeastern North America : CT = Connecticut; MA = Massachusetts; ME = Maine; NB = New Brunswick; NF = Newfoundland; NH = New Hampshire; NS = Nova Scotia ; NY = New York; ON = Ontario; PE = Prince Edward Island; QC = Québec; RI = Rhode Island; VT = Vermont. Continental distribution: 1 = Northeastern; 2 = Southeastern; 3 = Southwestern; 4 = Northwestern; 5 = Central. Comments. A synanthropic, Palearctic species newly recorded in Nova Scotia .