Rugilis ceylanensis
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Rugilis
Name
Rugilis ceylanensis (Kraatz, 1859)† – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
New Brunswick, York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 20.VIII.2006, 22.VIII.2006, 26.IX.2007, 23.IX.2009, 1.X.2009, R.P. Webster // Mixed forest, in decaying (moldy) corncobs & cornhusks (2 ♂, 8 sex undetermined, RWC).
Distribution in Canada and Alaska
ON, QC, NB (Bousquet et al. 2013[1]). Rugilus ceylanensis occurs in the southern and eastern Palaearctic and Oriental regions, New Guinea, and Hawaii where it is adventive (Hoebeke 2010[2], Assing 2012[3]). Hoebeke (2010)[2] reported this adventive species for the first time for North America from several states in the USA, and ON and QC in Canada.
Natural history
All specimens of Rugilis ceylanensis from NB were collected from a pile of decaying moldy corncobs and cornhusks. Elsewhere in the USA and Canada, this species was found in leaf piles, rotten leaves and logs, detritus, horse dung, and carrion (Hoebeke 2010[2]), and at the edge of an orchard growing apples, pears, and plums (coll. C. Lévesque). In Europe, adults were found in compost heaps, mammal dung, carrion, and along lakeshores and riverbanks (Assing 2012[3]).
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
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Hoebeke E (2010) Rugilus ceylanensis (Kraatz) (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae): a south Asian rove beetle new to North America. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 112: 508–516. doi: 10.4289/0013-8797.112.4.508
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Assing V (2012) The Rugilus species of the Palaearctic and Oriental regions (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Paederinae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde A, Neue Serie 5: 115–190.
