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Placusa vaga Casey 1911

  • 1. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada, Québec, Canada
  • 3. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec ,, Canada

Description

Placusa vaga Casey, 1911

Fig 35, Map 35

New Records. CANADA, New Brunswick, Carleton Co. near the Hovey Hill Protected Area, 46.1155°N, 67.7631°W, 10.V.2005 (2 sex undetermined, 1 ♁, 1 ♀,

Map 34. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of Placusa tacomae.

Map 35. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of Placusa vaga.

RWC); “ Bell Forest ”, 46.2152°N, 67.7190°W, 11.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster (1 ♁, RWC). Sunbury Co., 7.5 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6861°N, 66.7719°W, 9.V.2007 (1 ♀, RWC).

Bionomic Notes. Adults of P. vaga were found under bark of Populus species, at a sap flow on a recently cut Populus sp., and in drift material on a river margin. All individuals of this species were captured in May. Collection method: hand searching subcortical habitat.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska. YT, NT, BC, QC, NB (Klimaszewski et al. 2001; Gouix and Klimaszewski 2007; Majka and Klimaszewski 2008b; Klimaszewski et al. 2008b).

Tribe Athetini Casey, 1910

Aloconota sulcifrons (Stephens, 1832)

Fig 36, Map 36

New Records. CANADA, New Brunswick, Carleton Co., “ Bell Forest ”, 46.2208°N, 67.7211°W, 19.IV.2008 (1 ♁, RWC). Saint John Co., Dipper Harbour, 45.1169°N, 66.3771°W, 15.V.2006 (1 ♀, RWC). York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 22.VIII.2006 (1 ♀, RWC); same locality, 1.VIII.2007, 7.IX.2007 (1 ♁, 1 ♀, RWC).

Bionomic Notes. Aloconota sulcifrons, an adventive Palaearctic species, was collected from litter and moss near a brook, from compost (corncobs and cornhusks) near a mixed

Map 36. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of Aloconota sulcifrons.

forest, and in decaying sea wrack on the upper margin of a sea beach. Two specimens were collected at M.V. light. Th is species has frequently been collected from caves and was considered a troglophile by Klimaszewski and Peck (1986). However, the presence of this species in other habitat types suggests that A. sulcifrons is not a true troglophile. This adventive species appears to be associated with decaying organic material. Adults were collected in April, May, August, and September. Collection method: sifting, M.V. light.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska. QC, NB (Gusarov 2003; Majka and Klimaszewski 2008b).

Comments. For distribution of this cosmopolitan species in the USA, see: Klimaszewski and Peck (1986) [as A. insecta]; Gusarov 2003; and Majka and Klimaszewski 2008b).

Notes

Published as part of Webster, Reginald, Klimaszewski, Jan, Pelletier, Georges & Savard, Karine, 2009, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae, pp. 171-248 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on pages 213-216, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.152, http://zenodo.org/record/576537

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Biodiversity

Collection code
RWC
Event date
2005-05-11 , 2006-05-15 , 2006-08-22 , 2008-04-19
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Placusa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Casey
Species
vaga
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2005-05-11/2007-05-09 , 2006-05-15 , 2006-08-22 , 2008-04-19
Taxonomic concept label
Placusa vaga Casey, 1911 sec. Webster, Klimaszewski, Pelletier & Savard, 2009

References

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  • Klimaszewski J, Pelletier G, Germain C, Hebert C, Humble LM, Winchester NN (2001) Diversity of Placusa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) in Canada, with descriptions of two new species. Th e Canadian Entomologist 133: 1 - 47.
  • Gouix N, Klimaszewski J (2007) Catalogue of Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 165 pp.
  • Majka CG, Klimaszewski J (2008 b) New records of Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). ZooKeys 2: 85 - 114.
  • Klimaszewski J, Savard K, Pelletier G, Webster R (2008 b) Species review of the genus Gnypeta Thomson from Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): systematics, bionomics and distribution. ZooKeys 2: 11 - 84.
  • Casey TL (1910) New species of the staphylinid tribe Myrmedoniini. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 1. New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
  • Stephens JF (1832) In: Illustrations of British Entomology. pp. 1 - 240. Mandibulata. Vol. 5. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 448 pp., pls. 24 - 27 [published in parts 1832 - 1835].
  • Klimaszewski J, Peck SB (1986) A review of the cavernicolous Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of eastern North America: Part I. Aleocharinae. Quaestiones Entomologicae 22: 51 - 113.
  • Gusarov VI (2003) Revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synonymic notes. Zootaxa 353: 1 - 134.