Margarinotus confusus Wenzel, 1944

Webster, Reginald P., Makepeace, Scott, DeMerchant, Ian & Sweeney, Jon D., 2012, New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Histeridae, ZooKeys 179, pp. 11-26 : 17-19

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.179.2493

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Margarinotus confusus Wenzel, 1944
status

 

Margarinotus confusus Wenzel, 1944 Map 14

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1964°N, 67.6340°W, 31.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère & R. Webster, old mixed forest, in moist leaf litter at the margin of a vernal pond (1, RWC); Lower Woodstock, 46.1192°N, 67.5795°W, 7.V.2008, R. P. Webster, pasture, entrance to fox den (3, RWC). York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8430°N, 66.7275°W, 5.V.2006, R. P. Webster, in porcupine dung at the entrance of a porcupine den (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

This species has been collected in woodchuck ( Marmota monax (L.)) burrows and carrion ( Bousquet and Laplante 2006). In New Brunswick, adults were collected from the entrance of a fox ( Vulpes sp.) den, the entrance of a porcupine den in dung, and in moist leaf litter on the margin of a vernal pond. Adults were collected during May.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON, QC, NB, NS ( Bousquet and Laplante 2006).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Histeridae

Genus

Margarinotus