Atheta novaescotiae Klimaszewski and Majka
Authors/Creators
- 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.
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Additional details
Identifiers
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