Margarinotus confusus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Histeridae
Genus: Margarinotus
Name
Margarinotus confusus Wenzel, 1944 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
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[1]). 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[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Webster, R; Makepeace, S; DeMerchantr, I; Sweeney, J; 2012: New Coleoptera records from New Brunswick, Canada: Histeridae ZooKeys, 179: 11-26. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bousquet Y, Laplante S (2006) Coleoptera Histeridae: The Insects and Arachnids of Canada, part 24. NRC Research Press, Ottawa, 485 pp.
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