Silusa alternans Sachse, 1852 CANADA: ONTARIO: Nipissing Co.: Algonquin Provincial Park near Brent, 20.VIII.1980, R. Baranowski, (1m, LFC); Algonquin Provincial Park near Brent, 21.VIII.1980, R. Baranowski, (1f, MZLU). Silusa alternans is newly recorded in Ontario. North American Silusa species are predominantly associated with mushrooms and S. alternans has been collected in yellow birch (Betula alleghaniensis Britt.) and balsam fir (Abies balsamea (L.) Mill) dominated forests from Clavaria sp., Russula sp., and other fungi (Klimaszewski et al. 2003).

Published as part of Majka, Christopher & Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, New records of Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), pp. 85-114 in ZooKeys 2 (2) on page 90, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.7, http://zenodo.org/record/576409

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