Brachygluta luniger
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Brachygluta
Name
Brachygluta luniger (LeConte, 1849)*** – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
New Brunswick, Gloucester Co., near Acadian Historical Village, 47.7873°N, 65.0797°W, 14.VIII.2005, R. P. Webster & G. Pohl, salt marsh, intertidal zone, on patches of bare clay at base of Spartina patens on upper margin of tidal stream (10, RWC).
Collection and habitat data
Brachygluta luniger was collected in the intertidal zone of a salt marsh and is known to be associated with salt marshes (Chandler 1997[1]). The New Brunswick adults were found on small patches of bare clay at the base of salt-meadow grass, Spartina patens (Ait.) Muhl., on the upper margin of a tidal stream. Adults were collected during August.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska
NB (new Canadian record). This species has been reported from Massachusetts south to Florida in the United States (Chandler 1997[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Webster, R; Chandler, D; Sweeney, J; DeMerchant, I; 2012: New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada: Pselaphinae ZooKeys, 186: 31-53. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Chandler D (1997) Coleoptera: Pselaphidae. In: A catalogue of the Coleoptera of America north of Mexico. US Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Handbook Number 529-31, 118 pp.
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