Mocyta breviuscula ( Mäklin, 1852 )

Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, New records of Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), ZooKeys 2 (2), pp. 85-114 : 103

Mocyta breviuscula ( Mäklin, 1852)

CANADA: NOVA SCOTIA: Guysborough Co.: Malay Lake , 2-15.VI.1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC) ; Halifax Co.: Sable Island, Old Main Station , 24.IV.1976, B. Wright, sand dunes, under boards, (7, NSMC) ; Moser Lake , 2-15.VI.1997, D.J. Bishop, red spruce forest, flight-intercept trap, (1, NSMC) .

Mocyta breviuscula is newly recorded from Nova Scotia. Particularly noteworthy are the specimens collected on Sable Island, a 45 km long sand bar located near the edge of the continental shelf, 160 km from the nearest point of land. In Nova Scotia it has been found in both red spruce ( P. rubens ) forests and on isolated insular sand bars. On the Pacific coast it has also been found in coastal environments in Sitka, Alaska and on the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia ( Gusarov 2003a). We suspect that this species is continuously distributed in northern Canada.