Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Boreophilia islandica (Kraatz)

Boreophilia islandica (for diagnosis and illustrations, see Klimaszewski et al. 2011)

Distribution.

Natural history.

In Alberta, one female was collected in June in an aggregated retention patch (0.46 ha) surrounded by 20% dispersed retention of a white spruce dominated stand, using an emergence trap attached to the trunk of intermediate decay stage of white spruce log. The other female was captured in 10-year-old regenerating trembling aspen, using a window trap. This is the first habitat record of the species.