Ilyobates bennetti Donistorphe

Klimaszewski, Jan, Langor, David W., Bourdon, Caroline, Gilbert, Amelie & Labrecque, Myriam, 2016, Two new species and new provincial records of aleocharine rove beetles from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), ZooKeys 593, pp. 49-89 : 54

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Ilyobates bennetti Donistorphe Figs 23-30

Diagnosis.

This species is easily distinguishable from other aleocharines by its distinctive body shape, integument with coarse and dense punctation and pubescence (Fig. 23), and the genital structures (Figs 24, 25, 30). Body colour is reddish to almost black.

Distribution.

Bionomics.

In Newfoundland, specimens were captured in mixed boreal forest using pitfall traps. In New Brunswick, this adventive species was collected in litter at the base of a tree in a silver maple swamp, in flood debris along a river margin, and among decaying corncobs and cornhusks near a home in a forested residential area ( Webster et al. 2009). Majka and Klimaszewski (2008) reported this species from pitfall traps in pastures and a blueberry field in Nova Scotia. In Europe, this species has been reported from similar habitats ( Assing 1999). Adults were collected from June to August.

Comments.

This adventive species is well established in eastern Canada.