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Placusa tacomae Casey 1894

  • 1. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
  • 2. Natural Resources Canada, Québec, Canada
  • 3. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec ,, Canada

Description

Placusa tacomae Casey, 1894

Fig 34, Map 34

New Records. CANADA, New Brunswick, York Co. Charters Settlement, 45.8286°N, 66.7365°W, 3.VI.2008, mature red spruce and red maple forest, under bark of red spruce infested with D. rufipennis (Kirby) and P. rufi pennis (1 sex undetermined, 2 ♁, 4 ♀, RWC).

Bionomic Notes. Adults were found in mature red spruce and red maple forest, under bark of red spruce infested with D. rufipennis and P. rufi pennis. Collection method: hand searching subcortical habitat.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska. YT, NT, BC, AB, ON, QC, NB, NS (Klimaszewski et al. 2001; Gouix and Klimaszewski 2007).

Notes

Published as part of Webster, Reginald, Klimaszewski, Jan, Pelletier, Georges & Savard, Karine, 2009, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae, pp. 171-248 in ZooKeys 22 (22) on page 213, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.152, http://zenodo.org/record/576537

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Biodiversity

Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Placusa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Casey
Species
tacomae
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Placusa tacomae Casey, 1894 sec. Webster, Klimaszewski, Pelletier & Savard, 2009

References

  • Casey TL (1894) Coleopterological notices. V. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 7: 281 - 606.
  • Klimaszewski J, Pelletier G, Germain C, Hebert C, Humble LM, Winchester NN (2001) Diversity of Placusa (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) in Canada, with descriptions of two new species. Th e Canadian Entomologist 133: 1 - 47.
  • Gouix N, Klimaszewski J (2007) Catalogue of Aleocharine Rove Beetles of Canada and Alaska (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 165 pp.