Placusa vaga Casey 1911

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher, Klimaszewski, Jan
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Placusa; Placusa vaga; Northwest Territories; Canada; Inuvik; Burrows; Vaga
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792919; https://zenodo.org/record/3792919

Placusa vaga Casey, 1911 CANADA: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: 5 km southeast of Inuvik, 68.32881°N, 133.63556°W, 17.VII-3.VIII.2001, M. Gravel et al., mixed spruce-birch forest, ethanol-baited funnel trap, (1m, LFC). Placusa vaga is newly recorded from the Northwest Territories. Species of Placusa live in subcortical habitats in scolytine burrows where they apparently feed on fungal hyphae. In Québec, specimens were collected in balsam fir ( A. balsamea ), white spruce ( Picea glauca (Moench) Voss), and mixed white spruce-trembling aspen ( Populus tremuloides Michx.) stands (Klimaszewski et al. 2001). : Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, New records of Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 85-114 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 91, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/576409 : {"references": ["Klimaszewski J, Pelletier G, Germain C, Hebert C, Humble LM, Winchester NM (2001) Diversity of Placusa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) in Canada, with descriptions of two new species. The Canadian Entomologist 133: 1 - 47."]}