Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions Majka, Christopher Klimaszewski, Jan ZooKeys 2008 2008-09-04 2 2 151 174 4G9T4 Stephens, 1832 Stephens 1832 [140,560,1257,1284] Insecta Staphylinidae Philonthus Animalia Coleoptera 13 164 Arthropoda species cognatus     NOVA SCOTIA: Kings Co.: Kentville,  5.VI.1949, D. Eidt, (1, NSAC);  Kentville,  23.V.1950, V.R. Vickery, (1, NSAC);  Kentville,  25.V.1950, P.N. Grainger, (2, NSAC).   Majka and Klimaszewski (2008)reported the detection of this species in the Maritime Provinces (Nova Scotia) in 1951. The above records establish that  P. cognatuswas present in the region from at least 1949. It was first recorded 1884 inNorth America in North Carolina ( Horn 1884). Widely distributed in the Palaearctic across Europe to eastern Siberia and Jilinin China, it is found in a wide range of habitats that include forests, moist meadows, fields, edges of ponds, and marshes, particularly in rotting plant debris ( Smetana 1995). 2608960617 [140,984,1328,1355] 1949-06-05 NSAC D. Eidt Kings Co. Kentville 13 164 1 Nova Scotia 2608960602 1950-05-23 NSAC V. R. Vickery Kentville 13 164 1 Nova Scotia 2608960621 1950-05-25 NSAC P. N. Grainger Kentville 13 164 1 Nova Scotia