ZooKeys 22: Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II

About this book

Includes 13 research articles focused primarily on Canadian Coleoptera.

An introductory essay discusses a variety of challenges to biodiversity and biosystematics research worldwide. The contents of present volume represent stepping-stones of biodiversity research - a discipline vital to the future of life on the planet.

Contents

Editorial

Biodiversity and biosystematic research in a brave new 21st century information-technology world
Robert S. Anderson, Christopher G. Majka

Research articles

Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1
John A. McLean, Jan Klimaszewski, Agnes Li, Karine Savard

Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 2
John A. McLean, Jan Klimaszewski, Donald S. Chandler, Karine Savard, Agnes Li

Pella glooscapi, a new rove beetle, and new records of aleocharines from Nova Scotia, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
Jan Klimaszewski, Derek Lynch, Christopher G. Majka, Justin Renkema, Karine Savard, Peter Hlavc

First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
Jan Klimaszewski, Reginald Webster, Karine Savard

Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information
Jan Klimaszewski, Reginald Webster, Karine Savard

New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae
Reginald Webster, Jan Klimaszewski, Georges Pelletier, Karine Savard
The Haliplidae (Coleoptera) of Atlantic Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition
Christopher G. Majka, Bernhard J. van Vondel, Reginald P. Webster

Thomas L. Casey and Rhode Island's precinctive beetles: Taxonomic lessons and the utility of distributional checklists
Christopher G. Majka, Derek S. Sikes

New records of Cerambycidae (Coleoptera) for New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, Canada
Reginald Webster, David B. McCorquodale, Christopher G. Majka

Deadwood and saproxylic beetle diversity in naturally disturbed and managed spruce forests in Nova Scotia
DeLancey J. Bishop, Christopher G. Majka, Soren Bondrup-Nielsen, Stewart B. Peck

Adventive species of Quedius (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in North America: a survey and new Canadian record
Christopher G. Majka, Jean-Philippe Michaud, Gaetan Moreau

Philonthus hepaticus (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in eastern Canada: are distribution gaps distinctive features or collecting artifacts?
Christopher G. Majka, Jean-Philippe Michaud, Gaetan Moreau, Ales Smetana

The Gyrinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: new records, distribution, and faunal composition
Christopher G. Majka, Rex D. Kenner

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