Typhaea stercorea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Majka, Christopher G., 2010, The Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada, ZooKeys 64, pp. 9-23 : 15-16

Typhaea stercorea (Linnaeus, 1758)

Distribution.

Eighty-two specimens (NB=6, NS=66, PE=12) were examined. The earliest records from each province are: NEW BRUNSWICK: Northumberland Co.: Tabusintac, 13 June 1939, 26 July 1939, W.J. Brown (2, CNC). NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Truro, 4 March 1919, collector not recorded (8, NSAC). PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND: Prince Co.: Central Bedeque, 29 July 1954, F.M. Cannon (1, ACPE).

Notes.

Typhaea stercorea (Linnaeus) was reported from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island by Bousquet (1991). The species is widely distributed throughout the Maritime Provinces, including Cape Breton Island (Fig. 2). A majority of specimens were collected outdoors in native habitats. It is an adventive Palaearctic beetle found both outdoors and in association with various stored products. Typhaea stercorea has been found in corn fields (on decaying kernels of exposed ears), warehouses, stores, flour mills, mangers, railway boxcars, dwellings, and granaries in stored grain and seeds, tobacco, peanuts, cacao, corn, millet, wheat, apricots, and moldy grape skins, as well as in nests of swans and moorhens ( Campbell et al. 1989). In Nova Scotia it was reported in large numbers in dairy barns ( Campbell et al. 1989).

The dates of earliest detection are given above: New Brunswick (1939), Nova Scotia (1919), and Prince Edward Island (1954). Typhaea stercorea is widespread in Europe, having been recorded in every country and region in the continent ( Nikitsky 2010), and is also virtually cosmopolitan globally, being found in every region of the world except (doubtfully) South and Central America ( Nikitsky 2010).