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
Atheta
(
Dimetrota
)
terranovae
Klimaszewski and Langor
Distribution
Origin Nearctic
Distribution
Canada
: LB, MB, NB, NF, ON, QC, SK, YT.
USA
: not recorded
New provincial
Canada
:
Manitoba
: Hecla,
2016-IX-17
,
51.7849°N
,
96.6152°W
,
218 m
, mushroom,
records sifting,
B. Godin
&
D. Horwood
(
BGC
)
3 males
;
same locality data (
LFC
)
4 males
,
1 female
;
Bead Lake
,
2016-IX-13
,
50.7868°N
,
99.9928°W
,
620 m
, mushrooms, sifting,
B. Godin
&
D. Horwood
(
BGC
)
1 male
;
same locality data (
LFC
)
1 male
,
1 female
.
References
Klimaszewski et al. 2011
,
2018
Collection and habitat data.
Habitat
(outside of the study area).
It occurs in many coniferous, mixed and hardwood/deciduous forest
types
in
Canada
.
Adults
commonly found in decaying mushrooms (polypore and gilled) and sometimes in fresh mushrooms.
In
NB
, in an oak forest, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, northern hardwood forest, various mixed forests, red spruce forest, mature red spruce forest with red maple or yellow birch, black spruce forest, and eastern white cedar forests and swamps
;
specimens in fresh and decaying gilled mushrooms of various species, rotting lobster mushrooms, and a coral mushroom on spruce log.
Also captured in unbaited and carrion-baited pitfall traps and flight intercept traps
in various coniferous (spruce-feathermoss, spruce-lichen forests), mixed (spruce/aspen, riparian), and deciduous forests in NF and
LB
including some from decaying mushrooms
;
also from red maple, pine/willow, balsam fir/white birch forests, elsewhere.
Collecting
period
. VI–X (most common in VIII and
IX
).
Collecting method
. Sifting litter and mushrooms,
carrion-baited and unbaited pitfall traps
,
flight intercept traps
,
Lindgren funnel traps
.