Forty new records of aleocharine beetles, and two new species in the genera Acrotona Thomson and Atheta Thomson, for the province of Manitoba, Canada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry 1055 du P. E. P. S., P. O. Box 10380 Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, Quebec, Canada G 1 V 4 C 7 jan. klimaszewski @ canada. ca
Author
Godin, Benoit
14 A Thompson Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y 1 A 0 C 4
Author
Davies, Anthony
Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K 1 A 0 C 6
Author
Bourdon, Caroline
Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry 1055 du P. E. P. S., P. O. Box 10380 Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, Quebec, Canada G 1 V 4 C 7
Author
Horwood, Denise
14 A Thompson Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada Y 1 A 0 C 4
text
Insecta Mundi
2018
2018-07-27
2018
641
1
33
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5173990
1942-1354
5173990
9415B2C5-9166-4014-985F-7955E72805D2
Oxypoda convergens
Casey
Distribution
Origin Nearctic
Distribution
Canada
: AB, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC.
USA
: IA, MO, NY
New provincial
Canada
:
Manitoba
: Moose Lake,
2016-IX-19
,
49.2018°N
,
95.3423°W
,
353 m
, record mushroom, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (BGC)
1 female
.
References
Casey 1893
,
Klimaszewski et al. 2011
,
2018
Collection and habitat data.
Habitat
(outside of the study area). In various forest
types
including white spruce, mature black spruce, red spruce, mature 50-year-old balsam fir, oak, maple, yellow birch/ balsam fir white pine forests, red oak forests, mixed forests, and old eastern white cedar forest; often very common in decaying gilled mushrooms in the above forest habitats, especially those dominated hardwoods. Also in riparian habitats, and a meadow with
Salix
shrubs. Several collected from decaying corncobs and cornhusks.
Collecting period
. V–XI (most common in August and September).
Collecting method
. Unbaited and carrion-baited pitfall traps, processing forest litter through Berlese funnels, Luminoc pitfall-light traps, Lindgren traps, intercept traps, and treading leaf litter at the edge of a pond, sifting decaying mushrooms.