Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Figures 1-6. Examples of the Canadian aleocharine species illustrating their enormous morphological diversity: 1, Diglotta mersa (Haliday), a Palaearctic species recently discovered on the Atlantic coast of Canada; 2, Holobus vancouveri Klimaszewski, a new species discovered in the Carmanah Valley, Vancouver Island, BC; 3, Gnypeta nigrella (LeConte), an eastern Nearctic species recently discovered in eastern Canada; 4, Euvira micmac Klimaszewski and Majka, recently found at Lake Ponhook (Nova Scotia) inside spherical galls on red oak in a mixed hardwood forest; 5, Oxypoda grandipennis (Casey), a generalist species and one of the most common species in forest litter across Canada; and 6, Gyrophaena keeni Casey, a common species found across Canada on polypore fungi.