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Peltodytes tortulosus Roberts 1913

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2. Natuurhistorisch Museum Rotterdam, Rotterdam ,, Netherlands
  • 3. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada

Description

Peltodytes tortulosus Roberts, 1913

NEW BRUNSWICK: Albert Co.: Shepody National Wildlife Area, Mary’s Point Section, 45.7330° N, 64.6795° W, 16.VI.2004, R.P. Webster, cattail/sedge marsh, in small pool, (1, RWC); Sunbury Co.: Burton, 45° 45.448΄ N, 66° 34.413΄ W, 31.V.2003, R. P. Webster, red maple swamp, slow stream in emergent vegetation (1, RWC). York Co.: Fredericton, 9.V.2003, R. P. Webster, red maple swamp, margin of small outflow stream from cattail marsh among grasses, (1, RWC); New Maryland, Charters Settlement, 45° 49.55΄ N, 66° 43.32΄ W, 18.V.2003, R. P. Webster, mixed forest in small eutrophic pond in dense vegetation (1, RWC); New Maryland, Charters Settlement, 45° 49.80΄ N, 66° 44.08΄ W, 3.VI.2003, R. P. Webster, mixed forest in small sedge marsh in small pool (1, RWC). NOVA SCOTIA: Cumberland Co.: Amherst, 1.V.1999, J. Ogden, pond, (1, JOC); Kings Co.: Wolfville, 14.IX.1988, J. Ogden, irrigation pond, (1, JOC).

Peltodytes tortulosus is newly recorded from New Brunswick and Nova Scotia (Fig. 4). It was previously reported from Prince Edward Island by Vondel (2005) and Majka (2008). In Atlantic Canada there are records from small ponds, eutrophic ponds, irrigation ponds, slow stream margins, and in outflows associated with cattail and sedge marshes.

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher, van Vondel, Bernhard & Webster, Reginald, 2009, The Haliplidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition, pp. 249-266 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on page 262, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.91, http://zenodo.org/record/576538

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References

  • Roberts CH (1913) Critical notes on the species of Haliplidae of America north of Mexico with descriptions of new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 21: 91 - 123.
  • Vondel BJ van (2005) Haliplidae. In: Nilsson AN, Vondel BJ, van (Eds) Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga). World Catalogue of Insects 7: 1 - 171.
  • Majka CG (2008) Th e aquatic Coleoptera of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records and faunal composition. In: Majka CG, Klimaszewski J (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera. ZooKeys 2: 239 - 260. http: // pensoftonline. net / zookeys / index. php / journal / article / viewFile / 25 / 37 [accessed 5 January 2009]