The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography
Author
Majka, Christopher
Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
Author
Langor, David
Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, Canada
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ZooKeys
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Agathidium oniscoides
Palisot de Beauvois, 1817
NOVA SCOTIA
:
Cumberland Co.
:
Wentworth
,
21.V.1965
,
B. Wright
, (1,
NSMC
)
;
Queens
Co.
:
Sixth Lake
,
18.VI.2003
,
P. Dollin
, old-growth hemlock forest,
pitfall trap
, (1,
NSMC
)
.
Agathidium oniscoides
is newly recorded in
Nova Scotia
and in Atlantic
Canada
as a whole (
Fig. 6
). This species was collected throughout the year (except for January) in various deciduous forest habitats in leaf and log litter samples. Host records include the fungi
Bjerkandera adusta
(Fr.) Kar.
, and “fleshy fungi,” and the slime molds
Fulgio septica
,
Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa
(Müll.) Mac.
, and other myxomycetes (
Miller and Wheeler 2005
). The
Nova Scotia
record in an old-growth hemlock forest is noteworthy.