Philonthus boreas Smetana, 1995**

Webster, Reginald P., Smetana, Ales, Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick and an addition to the fauna of Quebec: Staphylininae, ZooKeys 186, pp. 293-348 : 322

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.186.2469

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scientific name

Philonthus boreas Smetana, 1995**
status

 

Philonthus boreas Smetana, 1995** Map 46 View Map 46

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Queens Co., Grand Lake near Scotchtown, 45.8762°N, 66.1816°W, R. P. Webster, 12.V.2004, 25.V.2006, lakeshore, under drift material (1 ♂, 1 ♀, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Philonthus boreas has been collected from various wet habitats, including the muddy banks of a river among scattered low grassy vegetation, and by treading moss and grassy vegetation along lake and pond margins ( Smetana 1995). In New Brunswick, adults of this northern transcontinental species were collected in drift material along a lakeshore in May.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

AK, YT, NT, BC, AB, SK, MB, ON, NB, NF ( Smetana 1995).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Philonthus