Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Carpelimus mundus (Sharp, 1876)† Figs 24-25

Material examined.

Canada, New Brunswick York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8395°N, 66.7391°W, 12.VII.2006, 26.VIII.2007, 7.IX.2007, R.P. Webster, coll. // Mixed forest, u.v. light (1 ♂, HNHM; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, RWC); same locality data but 29.VIII.2007, R.P. Webster // Mixed forest, in decaying (moldy) corncobs & cornhusks (1 ♀, HNHM).

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

NB (New North American record). The type locality is Ega (now Tefé, upper Amazon), Brazil (Sharp 1876: 397). Scheerpeltz (1933: 1086; catalog) added Argentina without details. Frank (1982) cited Ecuador. György Makranczy determined specimens of this species and thought that this was a highly unusual record for an essentially tropical species (all other members of this species group are also tropical).

Natural history.

Specimens from NB were collected at u.v. light in a residential yard near a mixed forest. One individual was collected from decaying (moldy) corncobs and cornhusks near a plastic composter.