Anotylus tetracarinatus Block, 1799

NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Bible Hill, 8.VII.2007, C.W. D’Orsay, pasture, sweep, (1, CBU).

Anotylus tetracarinatus is newly recorded for Nova Scotia and in the Maritime Provinces (Fig. 5). It was first recorded in North America in Indiana by LeConte (1877). It has subsequently been reported from New York (Notman 1920), British Columbia, Oregon, and Washington (Hatch 1957), and Québec by (Campbell and Davies 1991; Levesque and Levesque 1996). It is widely distributed in Europe east to Russia and south to Algeria, Turkey, and Iran (Herman 2001). In Europe it has been found in dung, mammal nests, caves, and decomposing fungi (Herman 2001) .