Newsletter of the Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods)

Volume 27 No. 2, Fall 2008


 

Little beetles and big headaches, or how to understand one of the most successful groups of terrestrial beetles in Canada (Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)


Jan Klimaszewski
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre,
1055 du P.E.P.S., P.O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, Québec, Canada G1V 4C7


General information and editorial notes


News and Notes

BSC 2008 Curation Blitz at the Canadian Museum of Nature

Biological Survey of Canada symposium at the ESC annual meeting

Summary of the Scientific
Committee meeting  

Project Update: The BSC's BioBlitz program

Little beetles and big headaches

Arthropod inventory work in Labrador


Arctic Corner

Northern Insect Survey

Selected future conferences



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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.

examples of Canadian aleocharine species




 

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