Atheta vestita
- 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
- 2. St. Francis Xavier University, Department of Biology, Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 3. St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish ,, Canada
Description
Atheta vestita (Gravenhorst, 1806)
NEW BRUNSWICK: Albert Co.: Mary’s Point, 12.VIII.2004, C.G. Majka, sandy shore, beach drift, (7, CGMC); Shepody National Wildlife Area, 31.V.2004, R.P. Webster, sea beach, beach drift material, (3, RWC). NOVA SCOTIA: Cape Breton Co.: Sydney, South Bar, 20.VI.1996, D.B. McCorquodale, (1, CBU); Digby Co.: Brier Island, Pond Cove, 22.VI.2003, J. Ogden and K. Goodwin, rocky shore, pitfall trap, (1, JOC).
Atheta vestita is a Palearctic species newly recorded in North America from New Brunswick by Klimaszewski et al. (2006) in beach drift material. Its distribution in North America is shown in Fig. 13. In Scandinavia, the Baltic region, Great Britain, Greenland, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands this macropterous species is found almost exclusively on sandy and gravelly seashores where it occurs beneath decaying seaweed on the strand line (Lindroth 1931; Larsson and Gígja 1959; Böcher 1988), however, in the Faroe Islands it has also been reported from grassland and waste land environments close to the seashore (Bengtson 1981). Given the maritime biology of this species, and the distribution of this species around the margins of the North Atlantic, further investigations should be conducted in Atlantic Canada and New England to determine the extent of its distribution and to examine whether it might be a naturally-occurring Holarctic species.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Related works
- Cites
- Figure: 10.5281/zenodo.3767191 (DOI)
- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.2.2 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://zenodo.org/record/576408 (URL)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFBDFFF0467D663C4B559C4EFF95D647 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CGMC , JOC , RWC, CBU
- Event date
- 1996-06-20 , 2003-06-22 , 2004-08-12
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Atheta
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Gravenhorst
- Species
- vestita
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1996-06-20/2004-05-31 , 2003-06-22 , 2004-08-12
- Taxonomic concept label
- Atheta vestita (Gravenhorst, 1806) sec. Majka, Klimaszewski & Lauff, 2008
References
- Klimaszewski J, Majka, CG, Langor, D (2006) Review of the North American Tarphiota Casey, with a description of a new seashore-inhabiting Atheta species exhibiting convergent characteristics (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Entomological Science 9: 67 - 78.
- Lindroth CH (1931) Die Insektenfauna Islands und ihre Probleme. Zoologiska Bidrag fran Uppsala 13: 105 - 589.
- Larsson SG, Gigja G (1959) Coleoptera 1. Synopsis. In: Fridriksson A, Tuxen SL (Eds) The Zoology of Iceland, Volume III, Part 46 a. Ejnar Munksgaard, Copenhagen-Reykjavik, 218.
- Bocher, J (1988) The Coleoptera of Greenland. Bioscience 26: 1 - 100.
- Bengtson S-A (1981) Terrestrial invertebrates of the Faroe Islands: III. Beetles (Coleoptera): Check-list, distribution, and habitats. Fauna Norvegica (B) 28 (2): 52 - 69.