The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada Author Majka, Christopher G. text Zootaxa 2006 1385 31 46 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.175098 7a89a251-87be-4b43-992b-b19493bd85cb 1175-5326 175098 Necrobia rufipes (DeGeer, 1775) NOVA SCOTIA : Halifax Co.: Halifax, 5.v.2006 , C.G. Majka, CGMC; Halifax, 12.v.2006 , C.G. Majka, CGMC; Kings Co.: Berwick, 5.i.2003 , F. Languard, JOC. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND : Queens Co.: Millvale, 13.vii.2002 , C.G. Majka, brackish marsh, CGMC. Newly recorded in Nova Scotia ( Figure 8 ). Associated with carrion, they are saprophagous and predaceous ( Opitz 2002 ). Found on the skins and bones of dead animals, a predator of dermestid larvae; a pest on grain, silk, and food ( Knull 1951 ). This originally Palearctic species is now cosmopolitan. Known in Canada (Ontario and Québec) since at least 1895 ( Wickham 1895 ).