Placusa vaga Casey 1911

• Main Authors: Webster, Reginald, Klimaszewski, Jan, Pelletier, Georges, Savard, Karine
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Placusa; Placusa vaga; Baldwin; Canada; Greenland; Vaga; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3790998; https://zenodo.org/record/3790998

Placusa vaga Casey, 1911 Fig 35, Map 35 New Records. CANADA, New Brunswick, Carleton Co. near the Hovey Hill Protected Area, 46.1155°N, 67.7631°W, 10.V.2005 (2 sex undetermined, 1 ♁, 1 ♀, Map 34. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of Placusa tacomae . Map 35. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of Placusa vaga . RWC); “ Bell Forest ”, 46.2152°N, 67.7190°W, 11.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster (1 ♁, RWC). Sunbury Co. , 7.5 km W of Tracy off Rt. 645, 45.6861°N, 66.7719°W, 9.V.2007 (1 ♀, RWC). Bionomic Notes. Adults of P. vaga were found under bark of Populus species, at a sap flow on a recently cut Populus sp., and in drift material on a river margin. All individuals of this species were captured in May. Collection method: hand searching subcortical habitat. Distribution in Canada and Alaska. YT, NT, BC, QC, NB (Klimaszewski et al. 2001; Gouix and Klimaszewski 2007; Majka and Klimaszewski 2008b; Klimaszewski et al. 2008b). Tribe Athetini Casey, 1910 Aloconota sulcifrons (Stephens, 1832) Fig 36, Map 36 New Records. CANADA, New Brunswick, Carleton Co. , “ Bell Forest ”, 46.2208°N, 67.7211°W, 19.IV.2008 (1 ♁, RWC). Saint John Co. , Dipper Harbour, 45.1169°N, 66.3771°W, 15.V.2006 (1 ♀, RWC). York Co. , Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 22.VIII.2006 (1 ♀, RWC); same locality, 1.VIII.2007, 7.IX.2007 (1 ♁, 1 ♀, RWC). Bionomic Notes. Aloconota sulcifrons , an adventive Palaearctic species, was collected from litter and moss near a brook, from compost (corncobs and cornhusks) near a mixed Map 36. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of Aloconota sulcifrons . forest, and in decaying sea wrack on the upper margin of a sea beach. Two specimens were collected at M.V. light. Th is species has frequently been collected from caves and was considered a troglophile by Klimaszewski and Peck (1986). However, the presence of this species in other habitat types suggests that A. sulcifrons is not a true troglophile. This adventive species appears to be associated with decaying organic material. Adults were collected in April, May, August, and September. Collection method: sifting, M.V. light. Distribution in Canada and Alaska. QC, NB (Gusarov 2003; Majka and Klimaszewski 2008b). Comments. For distribution of this cosmopolitan species in the USA, see: Klimaszewski and Peck (1986) [as A. insecta ]; Gusarov 2003; and Majka and Klimaszewski 2008b). : Published as part of Webster, Reginald, Klimaszewski, Jan, Pelletier, Georges & Savard, Karine, 2009, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae, pp. 171-248 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on pages 213-216, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.152, http://zenodo.org/record/576537 : {"references": ["Casey TL (1911) New American species of Aleocharinae and Myllaeninae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 2. Th e New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.", "Klimaszewski J, Pelletier G, Germain C, Hebert C, Humble LM, Winchester NN (2001) Diversity of Placusa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) in Canada, with descriptions of two new species. Th e Canadian Entomologist 133: 1 - 47.", "Gouix N, Klimaszewski J (2007) Catalogue of Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 165 pp.", "Majka CG, Klimaszewski J (2008 b) New records of Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). ZooKeys 2: 85 - 114.", "Klimaszewski J, Savard K, Pelletier G, Webster R (2008 b) Species review of the genus Gnypeta Thomson from Canada, Alaska and Greenland (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): systematics, bionomics and distribution. ZooKeys 2: 11 - 84.", "Casey TL (1910) New species of the staphylinid tribe Myrmedoniini. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 1. New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania.", "Stephens JF (1832) In: Illustrations of British Entomology. pp. 1 - 240. Mandibulata. Vol. 5. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 448 pp., pls. 24 - 27 [published in parts 1832 - 1835].", "Klimaszewski J, Peck SB (1986) A review of the cavernicolous Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of eastern North America: Part I. Aleocharinae. Quaestiones Entomologicae 22: 51 - 113.", "Gusarov VI (2003) Revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synonymic notes. Zootaxa 353: 1 - 134."]}