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Atheta novaescotiae Klimaszewski and Majka

  • 1. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, BC, Canada; V 8 Z 1 M 5 (emeritus). https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0003 - 3722 - 3662
  • 2. Dept. of Biological Sciences, Spaulding Hall, 38 Academic Way, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA 03824 (emeritus). https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0002 - 4093 - 2104
  • 3. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K 1 A 0 C 6. https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 9506 - 9017
  • 4. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P. E. P. S., P. O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, Quebec G 1 V 4 C 7, Canada. https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0001 - 9009 - 2994

Description

56. Atheta novaescotiae Klimaszewski and Majka

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2018), Table 1

References. Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2011, 2018. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008. Webster et al. 2009.

Distribution. Nearctic, coastal species. Canada: NF, NB, NS, France (St. Pierre et Miquelon). USA (NCR): NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. In NH found in beach wrack from April to June. In Canada it occurs on sea beaches, barrier beaches, and coastal dunes near mean high tide mark (upper margin of littoral zone), in/under decaying sea wrack, seaweed, and other beach debris on sand and gravel; often occurring with Aleochara litoralis (Majka and Klimaszewski 2008, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Rockingham Co.: Hampton, 14.IV.1964, F.W. Kruger, 1 female. Seabrook foredunes, 31.V.1989, D.S. Chandler, wrack, 1 male, 2 females; 14.VI.1989, D.S. Chandler, wrack, 2 females, 1 sex? Newcastle Common, 12.V.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift beach wrack, 2 females.

Comments. Subgeneric placement of this species is not clear.

Notes

Published as part of Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Davies, Anthony & Bourdon, Caroline, 2023, Aleocharine rove beetles of New Hampshire, USA: new taxa and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 5364 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5364.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145460

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Event date
1964-04-14 , 1982-05-12 , 1989-05-31
Verbatim event date
1964-04-14 , 1982-05-12 , 1989-05-31
Scientific name authorship
Klimaszewski and Majka
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Atheta
Species
novaescotiae
Taxon rank
species

References

  • Klimaszewski, J., Pelletier, G., Germain, C., Work, T. & Hebert, C. (2006) Review of Oxypoda species in Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): systematics, bionomics, and distribution. The Canadian Entomologist, 138 (6), 737 - 852. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / n 05 - 064
  • Klimaszewski, J., Webster, R. P., Langor, D. W., Brunke, A., Davies, A., Bourdon, C., Labrecque, M., Newton, A. F., Dorval, J. - A. & Frank, J. H. (2018) Aleocharine rove beetles of eastern Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): a glimpse of megadiversity. Springer, Cham, XVI + 902 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 77344 - 5
  • Klimaszewski, J., Langor, D., Pelletier, G., Bourdon, C. & Perdereau, L. (2011) Aleocharine beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 98. Pensoft, Sophia-Moscow, 313 pp.
  • Webster, R. P., Klimaszewski, J., Pelletier, G. & Savard, K. (2009) New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae. In: Majka, C. G. & Klimaszewski, J. (Eds.), Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II. ZooKeys, 22 (Special Issue), pp. 171 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 22.152