Twelve new species and fifty-three new provincial distribution records of Aleocharinae rove beetles of Saskatchewan, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)AuthorKlimaszewski, JanAuthorLarson, David J.AuthorLabrecque, MyriamAuthorBourdon, CarolinetextZooKeys201661045112http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.610.9361journal articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.610.93611313-2970-610-45910C964F910C47D99FAEB73A5557C7E2Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera StaphylinidaeStrigota ambigua (Erichson)
(for diagnosis and illustrations, see
Klimaszewski et al. 2011
)
Distribution.
LBNFNSONPEQCSKYT
SaskatchewanDLCDLC
Scirpus
DLCDLC
Gusarov 2003Majka et al. 2008Majka and Klimaszewski 2010Brunke et al. 2012Bousquet et al. 2013Webster et al. 2016b
Natural history.
In SK, one specimen was found in
Scirpus
wrack on the shore of saline pond, and three others were found in unspecified habitats in May, July and September. In NB, one specimen was found under a cobblestone on moist sand on a lake margin (
Webster et al. 2016b
). This widespread species occurs in open habitats, including dunes, beaches, limestone barrens, soybean fields, old fields, open gaps in spruce forest, riverbanks and groundhog burrows (
Brunke et al. 2012
).