Medon fusculus
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Medon
Name
Medon fusculus (Mannerheim, 1830)† – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
New Brunswick, York Co., Fredericton, Odell Park, 45.9570°N, 66.6695°W, 7.IX.2005, R.P. Webster // Mixed forest, in compost (decaying plant material) (1 ♂, RWC). Ontario, Milldale, 45°56'08N 80°35'08W, 25.V.2011, A. Davies, beech and poplar litter in deep ravine (8, CNC). Quebec, Johnville, La Framboisière de l’Estrie, 24.V.1989, C. Lévesque (1, CNC); Compton, 2.VI.2014 (1 ♀), 9.VI.2014 (1 ♂), 16.VI.2014 (1 ♀), 23.VI.2014 (1 ♂), C. Lévesque, pièges à fosse, en bordure d’un verger, (all coll. C. Lévesque).
Distribution in Canada and Alaska
ON, QC, NB (Bousquet et al. 2013[1]). The Palaearctic Medon fusculus is adventive to North America and was first reported from QC in the checklist by Campbell and Davies (1991)[2]. Brunke and Marshall (2011)[3] provided the first documented records for North America. Here, we present the first record from NB, as well as the data on which the distribution given in Bousquet et al. (2013)[1] was based (CNC).
Natural history
In the Palaearctic, Medon fusculus occurs in leaf litter and compost (Assing 2004[4]). The sole specimen from NB was found in a compost pile in a mixed forest. Specimens from ON were sifted from deciduous litter in a small fragment of mature forest, collected from under a rock, in pitfall traps and canopy traps along hedgerows (Brunke and Marshall 2011[3]), and sifted from damp beech and poplar litter by a stream in a deep ravine on agricultural land (CNC). The QC specimens were collected in pitfall traps on a raspberry plantation and at the edge of an orchard growing apples, pears, and plums.
Taxon Treatment
- Webster, R; Davies, A; Klimaszewski, J; Bourdon, C; 2016: Further contributions to the staphylinid fauna of New Brunswick, Canada, and the USA, with descriptions of two new Proteinus species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) ZooKeys, (573): 31-83. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bousquet Y, Bouchard P, Davies A, Sikes D (2013) Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Second edition. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 109, Sofia-Moscow, 402 pp.
- ↑ Campbell J, Davies A (1991) Family Staphylinidae. In: Bousquet Y (Ed.) Checklist of beetles of Canada and Alaska. Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Ottawa, Publication 1861/E, 86–124.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Brunke A, Marshall S (2011) Contributions to the faunistics and bionomics of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) in northeastern North America: discoveries made through study of the University of Guelph Insect Collection, Ontario, Canada. ZooKeys 75: 29–68. doi: 10.3897/zookeys/75.767
- ↑ Assing V (2004) A revision of the Medon species of the eastern Mediterranean and adjacent regions. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 52: 33–82.
