Philonthus sanguinolentus (Gravenhorst, 1802)*

Bedard, Nicolas, Brunke, Adam, Bloin, Pierrick & Leclerc, Ludovic, 2024, New records of rove beetles from the Province of Quebec, and additional provincial records in Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), ZooKeys 1196, pp. 303-329 : 303

Philonthus sanguinolentus (Gravenhorst, 1802)*

Note.

See Smetana (1995) and Klimaszewski et al. (2013) for illustrations and identification. This adventive Palearctic species was initially restricted in North America to the Pacific coast ( Smetana 1995), but was discovered in 2013 (collected in 2011) for the first time in Ontario ( Klimaszewski et al. 2013). In 2017, a photo record of a specimen from Quebec, Canada was published on BugGuide (see "Internet data" below). We hereby support this new Quebec record with specimen data below.

Specimen data.

Canada: QUEBEC - Ville de Québec, Cap-Rouge (46.7519, -71.3069), 17.VII.2022, P. Bloin, by sweeping vegetation along the railway track (1, PBC); Sainte-Foy (46.7874, -71.2914), 23.VII.2023, L. Leclerc, sifted from a decaying grass heap (1, LLC).

Internet data.

Canada: QUEBEC - MRC de la Haute-Yamaska, Granby, 17.VIII.2017, J. Brodeur, recorded through BugGuide (https://BugGuide.net/node/view/1425701).

Distribution in Canada.

ON, QC ( Bousquet et al. 2013) - New to Quebec.