Tachyusa obsoleta
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Tachyusa
Name
Tachyusa obsoleta Casey, 1906** – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
New Brunswick, Queens Co., Welsford (Bayard) near Nerepis River, 45.4441°N, 66.3300°W, 27.VI.2006, R. P. Webster, coll., river margin, among grass and debris near water (3 ♀, RWC); Bayard at Nerepis river, 45.4426°N, 66.3280°W, 25.V.2008, 30.V.2008, 20.VI.2008, R. P. Webster, coll., river margin, lightly splashing fine sand (3 ♂, 3 ♀, LFC, RWC). York Co., Douglas, Keswick River at Rt. 105, 45.9922°N, 66.8326°W, 9.V.2006, R. P. Webster, river margin, on moist clay (1 ♀, RWC).
Collection and habitat data
In New Brunswick, most adults of Tachyusa obsoleta were collected during May and June by lightly splashing water on fine sand near a river margin. Other individuals were found on moist clay and by sifting grass and debris along river margins.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska
BC, SK, NB (Paśnik 2006[1]). For records from the USA, see Paśnik (2006)[1]. This is almost certainly a transcontinental species in North America.
Taxon Treatment
- Webster, R; Klimaszewski, J; Sweeney, J; DeMerchant, I; 2012: New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, and an addition to the fauna of Quebec, Canada: Aleocharinae ZooKeys, 186: 83-118. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Paśnik G (2006) A revision of the World species of the genus Tachyusa Erichson, 1837 (Coleoptera, Staphyliniudae, Aleocharinae). Zootaxa 1146: 1-152.
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