Histeridae, Gyllenhaal, 1808
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Gnathoncus barbatus Bousquet & Laplante View in CoL is known from British Columbia east to Nova Scotia, and in Illinois ( Bousquet & Laplante 2006). It is herein recorded for the first time from Cape Breton Island. It has previously been found associated with porcupine dung ( Bousquet & Laplante 2006); it has not hitherto been recorded from bird or mammal nests.
Gnathoncus rotundatus (Kugelann) View in CoL is an adventive Palearctic species which is now found throughout Canada from British Columbia to Newfoundland and is considered cosmopolitan ( Bousquet & Laplante 2006). It has been recorded from the nests of many species of birds ( Bousquet & Laplante 2006; Hicks 1962, 1971) and is an important component of the nidicolous fauna of Tengmalm's owl ( Aegolius View in CoL f. funereus View in CoL ) nests in Europe ( Krištofík et al. 2003, Nordberg 1936). In this study G. rotundatus View in CoL was recorded only from the northern sawwhet owl nest at West River Station.
Carcinops pumilo (Erichson) is an adventive Palearctic species. It is cosmopolitan in distribution and in Canada has been recorded from British Columbia to Québec and Newfoundland ( Bousquet & Laplante 2006). It is herein recorded for the first time from Cape Breton Island. It found in stables, hen houses, granaries, and mills, as well as on dung, in bird nests, and on carrion ( Bousquet & Laplante 2006).
Sciodrepoides terminans (LeConte) View in CoL was recently elevated to specific rank by Peck & Cook (2002) from being a subspecies of S. fumatus (Spence) View in CoL . It is widely distributed in eastern North America and across Canada ( Peck & Cook 2002). It has principally been collected on various species of dead mammals but also on dung, decaying fish and fungi, in mam mal nests, and in robin ( Turdus migratorius Linné View in CoL ) and (unspecified) vulture nests ( Peck & Cook 2002). It is an abundant and widelydistributed species throughout Nova Scotia and has been recorded from 13 of the province's 18 counties (C.G. Majka, unpublished data). In this study S. terminatus was recorded only in a boreal owl nest.
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Histeridae
Majka, Christopher G., Klimaszewski, Jan & Lauff, Randolph F. 2006 |
Atheta pseudocrenuliventris
Klimaszewski 2005 |
Gnathoncus barbatus
Bousquet & Laplante 1999 |
Gnathoncus barbatus
Bousquet & Laplante 1999 |
Hylota ochracea
Casey 1906 |
Latridiidae
Erichson 1842 |
Trox aequalis
Say 1831 |
Aegolius
Kaup 1829 |
Leiodidae
Fleming 1821 |
Leiodidae
Fleming 1821 |
Trogidae
MacLeay 1819 |
Histeridae
Gyllenhaal 1808 |
Staphylinidae
Latreille, 1803- 1802 |
Coleoptera
Linnaeus 1758 |