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
Poecilus chalcites
(Say)
Deserving of attention is the record of
Poecilus chalcites
reported from Fredericton, NB (
1992–1995
) by
Boiteau
et al.
(2000)
. This species was not included in the compendium of New Brunswick carabid fauna compiled by
Goulet & Bousquet (2004)
. Found in cultivated fields planted with many crops, rangelands, pastures, meadows, lawns, vacant lots, gravel pits, roadsides, orchards, open forests, and near water on open moist ground. Adults feed on Lepidoptera caterpillars, flies, wasps, other insects, fungi, and vegetable material (
Larochelle & Larivière 2003
).