Necrobia rufipes (DeGeer, 1775)

Majka, Christopher G., 2006, The checkered beetles (Coleoptera: Cleridae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, Zootaxa 1385, pp. 31-46 : 42

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).

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FIGURE 8. Distribution of Necrobia violacea and N. rufipes in the Maritime Provinces.