Hydroporus obscurus Sturm

Alarie, Yves, 2016, Further contributions to the Hydradephaga (Coleoptera, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae and Dytiscidae) fauna of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records, distributions and faunal composition, ZooKeys 600, pp. 103-129 : 111

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae

Hydroporus obscurus Sturm

Note.

This species is reported from 16 specimens collected at two localities of Prince and Kings Counties (Table 2).

Habitat.

This species occurs in very small peatland pools, as well as in the moss mat along the margins of larger peatland pools and ponds ( Larson et al. 2000). Specimens collected in Prince Edward Island were from a Sphagnum bog and the grassy shoreline of a pond (Table 1).

Distribution in the Maritime Ecozone.

This species is known also from the neighboring Maritime Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ( Larson et al. 2000).