Necrobia rufipes (DeGeer, 1775)

NOVA SCOTIA: Halifax Co.: Halifax, 5.v.2006, C.G. Majka, CGMC; Halifax, 12.v.2006, C.G. Majka, CGMC; Kings Co.: Berwick, 5.i.2003, F. Languard, JOC. PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Queens Co.: Millvale, 13.vii.2002, C.G. Majka, brackish marsh, CGMC.

Newly recorded in Nova Scotia (Figure 8). Associated with carrion, they are saprophagous and predaceous (Opitz 2002). Found on the skins and bones of dead animals, a predator of dermestid larvae; a pest on grain, silk, and food (Knull 1951). This originally Palearctic species is now cosmopolitan. Known in Canada (Ontario and Québec) since at least 1895 (Wickham 1895).