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Quedius molochinus

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec, QC, Canada

Description

Quedius molochinus (Gravenhorst, 1802)

PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Harrington, 7.IX.2006, C. Noronha, potato field, pitfall trap, (1, CGMC).

Majka and Klimaszewski (2008) neglected to note that Q. molochinus also is known on Prince Edward Island (in addition to Nova Scotia) from a specimen collected in 2006 (Majka 2007). Th erefore, this species is added to the list of adventive staphylinids found on Prince Edward Island. Quedius molochinus was first discovered 1949 in North America in Newfoundland (Smetana 1971). It is widely distributed in Europe and Russia south to North Africa and the Caucasus (Herman 2001; Smetana 2004b). All North American specimens have been found in land affected by cultivation (Smetana 1971; Majka 2007).

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions, pp. 151-174 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 162, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/576407

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Biodiversity

Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Quedius
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Gravenhorst
Species
molochinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Quedius molochinus (Gravenhorst, 1802) sec. Majka & Klimaszewski, 2008

References

  • Gravenhorst JLC (1802) Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicensia nec non exoticorum quotquot exstant in collectionibus entomologorum Brunsvicensium in genera familias et species distribuit. Brunsuigae, Carolus Richard, lxvi + 206 pp.
  • Majka CG, Klimaszewski J (2008) Introduced Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. Th e Canadian Entomologist 140: 48 - 72.
  • Smetana A (1971) Revision of the tribe Quediini of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 79: i-vi + 1 - 303.
  • Herman LH (2001) Catalogue of the Staphylinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): 1758 to the end of the Second Millennium. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 265: 1 - 4218.
  • Smetana A (2004 b) Subfamily Staphylininae Latreille, 1802: In: Lobl I, Smetana A (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 624 - 698.