Gennadota canadensis Casey 1906
Creators: name: Webster, Reginald
name: Klimaszewski, Jan
name: Pelletier, Georges
name: Savard, Karine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gennadota
Gennadota canadensis

description: <i>Gennadota canadensis</i> Casey, 1906 Fig 13, Map 13 <b>New Records.</b> <b>CANADA, New Brunswick, Carleton Co.</b>, Meduxnekeag River Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1980°N, 67.6859°W, 31.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster (1 sex undetermined, CNC); Meduxnekeag River Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1907°N, 67.6740°W, 9.X.2006 (2 &amp;female;, NBM, RWC). <b>Saint John Co.</b>, <i>ca.</i> 2.0 km NE of Maces Bay, 45.1168°N, 66.4552°W, 8.V.2006 (1 &amp;female;, RWC). <b>York Co.</b>, “ Browns Mountain Fen”, 45.8951°N, 67.6333°W, 2.V.2006, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster (1 ♁, 1 &amp;female;, NBM, CNC); W of Canterbury near “ Browns Mt. Fen”, 45.9033°N, 67.6260°W, 2.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère and R.P. Webster (1 &amp;female;, RWC); Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 16.IV.2004, 18.IV.2004, 16.IX.2004 (teneral adult), 16.IV.2005, 22.IV.2006, 27.IV.2008 (4 ♁, 11 sex undetermined, CNC, LFC, NBM, RWC); same locality data, 29.III.2006 (partial snow cover present), (4 sex undetermined, NBM). <b>Map &amp;Iogon;3.</b> Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of <i>Gennadota canadensis</i>. <b>Bionomic Notes.</b> Most individuals of <i>G. canadensis</i> were collected from among decaying vegetables (compost) either within or adjacent to a commercially available plastic compost bin near a mixed forest in a small residential area. Others were collected from moist leaves under sap flows from recently cut or wounded trees, decaying mushrooms and moose dung in mixed forests. In Nova Scotia, <i>G. canadensis</i> was collected on dead pigs, a decaying gilled fungus, on decaying <i>Ganoderma</i> shelf-fungus, and in a pitfall trap among broken rocks and leaf litter at the entrance of a cave (Majka et al. 2006b). Prior to Majka et al. (2006b) records, only three specimens of this species were known, two from caves (Klimaszewski and Peck 1986; Klimaszewski and Pelletier 2004). Our data suggest that <i>G. canadensis</i> is a forest species associated with decaying organic matter and may only occur in caves incidentally. Collection method: sifting. Adults were collected in late March, April, May, September and October. One adult collected in October was teneral. Four adults were captured in a flight intercept trap adjacent to a plastic composting bin on a warm day (12°C) in late March when a partial snow cover was still present. <i>Gennadota canadensis</i> probably overwinters in the adult stage and appears to become active very early in the spring. <b>Distribution in Canada and Alaska.</b> NS, <b>NB</b>, ON, QC (Majka et al. 2006b; Gouix and Klimaszewski 2007).
description: Published as part of <i>Webster, Reginald, Klimaszewski, Jan, Pelletier, Georges &amp; Savard, Karine, 2009, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae, pp. 171-248 in ZooKeys 22 (22)</i> on pages 188-189, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.152, http://zenodo.org/record/576537
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