Caenoscelis basalis Casey 1900

• Main Authors: Majka, Christopher, Langor, David
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2010
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Cryptophagidae; Caenoscelis; Caenoscelis basalis; Corner Brook; Canada; Chandler; LeBlanc; Ballard; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/3789536; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3789536

Caenoscelis basalis Casey, 1900 NEWFOUNDLAND: Corner Brook, Loggers Sch Rd, July 29-August 21, 1992, 60 year old fir forest, pitfall (2, MUN). NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Debert, June 19, 1993, J. Ogden (1, NSNR); Cumberland Co.: Oxford, May 25, 1995, J. Ogden (1, NSNR); Westchester-Londonderry, July 20, 1992, S. & J. Peck, forest road, car netting (2, JCC); Guysborough Co.: Malay Lake, 1–16 July, 1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce, FIT (1, NSMC); Trafalgar, July 19, 1992, S. & J. Peck, car netting (1, JCC); Halifax Co.: Point Pleasant Park, June 22, 1990, R. Ballard, red spruce forest, pipe trap (2, NSMC); Pictou Co.: Marshy Hope, August 10, 1995, M. LeBlanc, FIT (1, NSNR). Caenoscelis basalis is newly recorded in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and Atlantic Canada (Fig. 4). Previous records of this Holarctic species are from Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and Québec (Bousquet 1991; Downie and Arnett 1996; Chandler 2001). Specimens in Nova Scotia were collected in red spruce forests, and in Newfoundland it was found in a balsam fir (Abies balsamaea (L.) Mill, Pinaceae) forest. Members of this genus are found in leaf litter, organic matter, nests of small mammals, and beneath the bark of logs (Bousquet 1989). Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Langor, David, 2010, Contributions towards an understanding of the Cryptophaginae (Coleoptera, Cryptophagidae) of Atlantic Canada, pp. 13-35 in ZooKeys 35 (35) on pages 29-30, DOI:10.3897/zookeys.35.314, http://zenodo.org/record/576615