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Sometimes You Can Add a Bit of Salt: Additional Freshwater Insect Species in Canadian Estuaries

Kyle M. Knysh1,*, Mark D. Saunders2, Leah P. Macintyre1, Simon C. Courtenay2, and Michael R. van den Heuvel1

1Canadian Rivers Institute, Department of Biology, University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, PEI C1A 4P3, Canada. 2Canadian Rivers Institute, School of Environment, Resources and Sustainability, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, Canada. *Corresponding author.

Northeastern Naturalist, Volume 29, Issue 1 (2022): N9–N17

Abstract
Along the river–ocean transition, few freshwater species persist into polyhaline zones. Among those insect species capable of living in estuaries, it is unclear which Odonata, Trichoptera, and Coleoptera species can occur at intermittent or average salinities above 18 PSU. During surveys of fish and crustaceans in Prince Edward Island (PEI), we noted 3 unexpected insect species from within subtidal-channels. Multiple instars of Coenagrionidae n. det. and Enallagma civile (Familiar Bluet) were collected around marine macroalgae at 5 localities with 6-26 PSU salinities and observed emerging atop macroalgae. Also, collections of the larvae of the caddisfly Limnephilus externus (Limniphilidae), and adult Haliplus cribrarius (Haliplidae) beetles at sites with maxima of 23 and 20 PSU, respectively, suggest rare occurrences of these species within estuarine ecotones.

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