Ilyobates bennetti Donisthorpe, 1914

NOVA SCOTIA: Colchester Co.: Bible Hill, 13-19.VI.2007, C.W. D’Orsay, pasture, pitfall trap, (3, CBU) ; Bible Hill, 3-9.VII.2007, C.W. D’Orsay, pasture, pitfall trap, (2, CBU) ; Hants Co.: Upper Rawdon, 26.VI.2008, J. Renkema, blueberry field, pitfall trap, (1, CGM) .

Ilyobates bennetti is newly recorded for Nova Scotia and in the Maritime Provinces (Fig. 1). Figure 2 provides a dorsal habitus photograph. Th e only previous records of this species in North America are two specimens from Ste. Clothilde (1981) and

Frelighsburg (1984) (Québec) (Assing (1999). It is very widely distributed in Europe and in the Caucasus. In Europe it occurs in a variety of open habitats, particularly synanthropic ones, such as urban meadows, lawns, fallow areas, gardens, strip mines, and in pioneer vegetation; it is also found in swamps, bogs, flood plains, riverbanks, meadows, grasslands, in leaf litter, moss, grass, compost, rotting debris, and under reeds and ferns (Assing 1999).