Anotylus tetracarinatus Block, 1799

Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions, ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 151-174 : 160

Anotylus tetracarinatus Block, 1799

NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Bible Hill, 8.VII.2007, C.W. D’Orsay, pasture, sweep, (1, CBU).

Anotylus tetracarinatus is newly recorded for Nova Scotia and in the Maritime Provinces ( Fig. 5 ). It was first recorded in North America in Indiana by LeConte (1877). It has subsequently been reported from New York ( Notman 1920), British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington ( Hatch 1957), and Québec by ( Campbell and Davies 1991; Levesque and Levesque 1996). It is widely distributed in Europe east to Russia and south to Algeria, Turkey, and Iran ( Herman 2001). In Europe it has been found in dung, mammal nests, caves, and decomposing fungi ( Herman 2001) .

Figures

Fig. 5. Distribution of Cilea silphoides, Atheta dadopora, Leptacinus intermedius, Bisnius cephalotes, Neobisnius villosulus, Philonthus jurgans, Anotylus tetracarinatus, and Anotylus insecatus in the Maritime Provinces of Canada.