Cilea silphoides (Linnaeus, 1767)

Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions, ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 151-174 : 154

Cilea silphoides (Linnaeus, 1767)

NEW BRUNSWICK: Kent Co.: Kouchibouguac National Park, 25.VII.1978, I. Smith, (1, CNC) .

Cilea silphoides is a European species long known in North America. It was first recorded on the continent by Gravenhorst (1802) under the name Tachinus marginalis and was later described by Randall (1838) under the name Tachinus geminatus from specimens collected in Brookline, Massachusetts. In Canada, Campbell (1975) recorded it from British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, and Québec. It was reported from New Brunswick by Campbell and Davies (1991) on the basis of the record given above ( Fig. 5 ). Cilea silphoides is widely distributed in Europe from France and England east to Bulgaria, the Ukraine, and eastern Russia and north to Fennoscandia ( Alonso-Zarazaga 2007). It is also found throughout Africa, from Iran east throughout Southeast Asia and north to China, Korea, and Japan, and in the West Indies ( Herman 2001). It is usually found in piles of rotting vegetable matter such as compost heaps, grass cuttings, rotting fruit, haystacks, piles of straw, and in dung and old mushrooms ( Horion 1967).

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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.