Hydroporus striola (Gyllenhal)

Alarie, Yves, 2016, Further contributions to the Hydradephaga (Coleoptera, Haliplidae, Gyrinidae and Dytiscidae) fauna of Prince Edward Island, Canada: new records, distributions and faunal composition, ZooKeys 600, pp. 103-129 : 111-112

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Dytiscidae

Hydroporus striola (Gyllenhal)

Note.

Hydroporus striola was one of the most abundant (4.25%) and most common species collected in the province (Table 2).

Habitat.

Hydroporus striola occurs in almost all types of small, standing water where emergent vegetation is dense. Specimens occur in peatland pools, being most common in fen habitat and rather infrequent in ombrotrophic bog pools ( Larson et al. 2000). Specimens collected in Prince Edward Island were from an array of lentic habitats as described above (Table 1).

Distribution in the Maritime Ecozone.

Hydroporus striola is the most ubiquitous species of Hydroporus in the boreal zone of the North Temperate Region ( Larson et al. 2000). In the Maritime ecozone, this species is known also from the neighboring Provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia ( Larson et al. 2000), and the Magdalen Islands ( Alarie 2009).