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Catops basilaris Say 1823

  • 1. Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada, Edmonton, Canada

Description

Catops basilaris Say, 1823

LABRADOR: Grand Lake Rd, km 39.7, 24.VII.1992, K. Perrault, (1, CFNL). NEWFOUNDLAND: Eight hundred and thirty specimens were examined. The earliest record is from 1977 (Windsor Lake, 30.VIII.1977, D.J. Larson, (1, MUN)). NOVA SCOTIA: One hundred and eighty-three specimens were examined from Annapolis, Antigonish, Colchester, Cumberland, Guysborough, Halifax, Inverness, Lunenburg, Pictou, Queens, Shelburne, Victoria, and Yarmouth counties. The earliest record is from 1965 (Lunenburg Co.: Bridgewater, 1-16.VII.1965, B. Wright, red oak forest, pitfall trap, (1, NSMC)).

Catops basilaris was reported by Peck and Cook (2002) from Labrador, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia including Cape Breton Island (Fig. 11). It is the most widespread and frequently collected species of Catops in North America, primarily collected in forested environments at carrion, but also occasionally on decaying mushrooms, in forest litter, in mammal and wasp nests, and on owl pellets. It is found in deciduous, mixed, and coniferous forests and Sphagnum bog habitats (Peck and Cook 2002). In Nova Scotia, specimens have been collected in coniferous, deciduous, mixed, and coastal forests.

Notes

Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Langor, David, 2008, The Leiodidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, faunal composition, and zoogeography, pp. 357-402 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 389, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.56, http://zenodo.org/record/576397

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Journal article: 10.3897/zookeys.2.56 (DOI)
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Biodiversity

Family
Leiodidae
Genus
Catops
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Say
Species
basilaris
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Catops basilaris Say, 1823 sec. Majka & Langor, 2008

References

  • Peck SB, Cook J (2002) Systematics, distributions, and bionomics of the small carrion beetles (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Cholevinae: Cholevini) of North America. The Canadian Entomologist 134: 723 - 787.