Hydroporus gossei Larson & Roughley

Alarie, Yves, 2019, The Hydradephaga (Coleoptera, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae, and Dytiscidae) fauna of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada: new records, distributions, and faunal composition, ZooKeys 897, pp. 49-66 : 49

Hydroporus gossei Larson & Roughley

Notes.

This species is reported for the first time in Nova Scotia from eleven specimens collected in Cape Breton County, Inverness County and Victoria County (samples V12, V26, V27, C53, C59, I88, I90).

Habitat.

In Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, this species has been collected from among flooded grasses and emergent Carex along the margins of beaver ponds and roadside ponds, which is similar to the habitats where these beetles were collected in Cape Breton Island which include also eutrophic creeks.

Distribution in the Maritime Ecozone.

This large, distinctive Hydroporus species has generally been confused with Hydroporus rectus Fall. In the Maritime ecozone, H. gossei is also reported from the neighboring province New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island ( Larson et al. 2000; Bousquet et al. 2013; Alarie 2016).