Margarinotus egregius (Casey, 1916)

Webster, Reginald P., Makepeace, Scott, DeMerchant, Ian & Sweeney, Jon D., 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Histeridae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 11-26 : 19

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2493

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Margarinotus egregius (Casey, 1916)
status

 

Margarinotus egregius (Casey, 1916) Map 15

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Lower Woodstock, 46.1192°N, 67.5795°W, 7.V.2008, R. P. Webster, pasture, entrance to fox den (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

This species is commonly found in woodchuck burrows early in the spring and also in various decaying organic material such as carrion, dung, and decaying mushrooms ( Bousquet and Laplante 2006). The specimen from New Brunswick was collected from the entrance of a fox den in May.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

MB, ON, QC, NB, NS ( Bousquet and Laplante 2006).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Histeridae

Genus

Margarinotus