Brachygluta luniger (LeConte, 1849)***

Webster, Reginald P., Chandler, Donald S., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada: Pselaphinae, ZooKeys 186, pp. 31-53 : 42

Brachygluta luniger (LeConte, 1849)*** Map 14

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). 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).