Philonthus sanguinolentus (Gravenhorst, 1802)*

Note.

See Smetana (1995) and Klimaszewski et al. (2013) for illustrations and identification. This adventive Palearctic species was initially restricted in North America to the Pacific coast (Smetana 1995), but was discovered in 2013 (collected in 2011) for the first time in Ontario (Klimaszewski et al. 2013). In 2017, a photo record of a specimen from Quebec, Canada was published on BugGuide (see "Internet data" below). We hereby support this new Quebec record with specimen data below.

Specimen data.

Canada: QUEBEC - Ville de Québec, Cap-Rouge (46.7519, -71.3069), 17.VII.2022, P. Bloin, by sweeping vegetation along the railway track (1, PBC); Sainte-Foy (46.7874, -71.2914), 23.VII.2023, L. Leclerc, sifted from a decaying grass heap (1, LLC).

Internet data.

Canada: QUEBEC - MRC de la Haute-Yamaska, Granby, 17.VIII.2017, J. Brodeur, recorded through BugGuide (https://BugGuide.net/node/view/1425701).

Distribution in Canada.

ON, QC (Bousquet et al. 2013) - New to Quebec.