Ilybius larsoni (Fery & Nilsson)

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 : 114

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.600.8856

publication LSID

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scientific name

Ilybius larsoni (Fery & Nilsson)
status

 

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae

Ilybius larsoni (Fery & Nilsson) View in CoL

Note.

This species is reported from five localities of Queens and Kings Counties (Table 2).

Habitat.

Specimens of Ilybius larsoni have generally been collected from small, cold woodland pools, usually with moss and accumulation of plant debris such as grass or sedge stalks or fallen leaves. Specimens have also been collected from small, peat-rich springs ( Larson et al. 2000). In Prince Edward Island, this species was found in Sphagnum bogs and eutrophic creek (Table 1).

Distribution in the Maritime Ecozone.

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

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Dytiscidae

Genus

Ilybius