Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions Author Majka, Christopher Nova Scotia Museum, Halifax, NS, Canada Author Klimaszewski, Jan Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec, QC, Canada text ZooKeys 2008 2008-09-04 2 2 151 174 journal article 22663 10.3897/zookeys.2.5 fa2a6380-86e0-4589-8cb9-2438a8ede5c7 1313–2970 576407 Philonthus cognatus Stephens, 1832 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. cognatus was present in the region from at least 1949. It was first recorded 1884 in North America in North Carolina ( Horn 1884 ). Widely distributed in the Palaearctic across Europe to eastern Siberia and Jilin in 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 ).