Table 2.
Number of aleocharine species in Canada and projection of yet undiscovered species per province and territory.
| Provinces and territories | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| YK | NT | NU | BC | AB | SK | MB | ON | QC | NB | NS | PE | NL | Total | |
| Aleocharinae species richness (Bousquet et al. 2013) | 129 | 55 | 14 | 175 | 89 | 27 | 73 | 228 | 192 | 206 | 124 | 24 | 174 | 510 |
| Proportion of total fauna in each jurisdiction based on carabid data (Bousquet et al. 2013) | 0.205 | 0.223 | 0.035 | 0.519 | 0.428 | 0.359 | 0.387 | 0.547 | 0.493 | 0.343 | 0.300 | 0.179 | 0.195 | |
| Expected aleocharine species richness extrapolated from carabid diversity data | 145 | 158 | 25 | 367 | 303 | 254 | 274 | 387 | 348 | 242 | 212 | 126 | 174 | 707 |
| Percent of fauna so far documented | 89% | 35% | 56% | 48% | 29% | 11% | 27% | 59% | 55% | 85% | 58% | 19% | <100% | 72% |
| Number of species awaiting discovery | 16 | 103 | 11 | 192 | 214 | 227 | 201 | 159 | 156 | 36 | 88 | 102 | >0 | 197 |