Cryptophagus jakowlewi Reitter, 1888

NOVA SCOTIA: Antigonish Co.: Cape George, June 23, 1994, M. LeBlanc (1, NSNR); Fairmont Tower Rd, June 16, 1994, M. LeBlanc (1, NSNR); Fairmont Tower Rd, May 17, 1995, M. LeBlanc (1, NSNR); Fairmont Tower Rd, July 6, 1995, M. LeBlanc (2, NSNR); Colchester Co.: Five Islands Park, June 13, 2004, J. Ogden, FIT (1, NSNR); Lunenburg Co.: Bridgewater, June 30, 1965, B. Wright, red oak (1, NSMC); Pictou Co.: Marshy Hope, June 7, 1995, M. LeBlanc (2, NSNR). PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: St. Patricks, July 13, 2002, C.G. Majka, old field (1, CGMC).

Cryptophagus jakowlewi is newly recorded in Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Atlantic Canada (Fig. 2). Nearctic specimens of this species were previously known under the name of Cryptophagus confertus Casey, 1900 (synonymized by Johnson et al. 2007). It is a Holarctic species found across Canada and the northern United States, in Europe in the Alps and Scandinavia, across Siberia to the Russian Far East, and south

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to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Central Asia. In Europe, Lohse (1967) describes it as a boreo-alpine species. Some specimens of this species can be separated from Cryptophagus bidentatus Mäklin on the basis of external morphology only with great difficulty. The adeagi of both species are indistinguishable, however, the shape of the parameres of the two species are quite distinct ( Woodroffe and Coombs 1961).