Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae

Rhantus suturellus (Harris)

Note.

One specimen of Rhantus suturellus was collected in Kings County (Table 2).

Habitat.

These beetles occur in cold, densely shaded water in forested areas, frequently found in bogs and fens (Larson et al. 2000). In Prince Edward Island, the specimen collected was found in a Carex pool with black sediments in a spruce forest (Table 1).

Distribution in the Maritime Ecozone.

Rhantus suturellus is known also from the neighboring Provinces of New Brunswick (Webster 2008) and Nova Scotia (Larson et al. 2000) and the Magdalen Islands (Alarie 2009).