Description of Hydrosmectomorpha Klimaszewski and Webster, a new subgenus of Atheta C. G. Thomson, with three new Canadian species (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae)
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
Author
Davies, Anthony
Author
Bourdon, Caroline
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Insecta Mundi
2018
2018-08-31
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.3708236
6d350404-6f84-4fdc-83ef-65a70583acf8
1942-1354
3708236
DBEAD659-A6B3-4579-9F64-D4D2C1301D10
Atheta
(
Hydrosmectomorpha
)
quebecensis
Webster and Klimaszewski,
new species
(
Fig. 32–38
)
Holotype
(male).
Canada
,
Quebec
,
Bellechase Co.
,
St. Raphael
at
Rivière du Sud
,
46.8071°N
,
70.7377°W
,
27.VIII.2009
,
R
.P.
Webster
, coll. // river margin near waterfall, splashing exposed bedrock with moss near fast flowing water above waterfall, (
CNC
)
.
Paratypes
.
Same locality data as the holotype (
RWC
)
1 female
.
Etymology.
This species name derives from the name of the province of
Quebec
, where the original series was found.
Diagnosis.
Body subparallel, flattened, length
3.6–3.8 mm
; colour dark brown to almost black, with legs and elytra except for scutellar region paler, yellowish-brown (
Fig. 32
); integument moderately glossy, forebody with fine, moderately dense punctation and faint meshed microsculpture; head slightly narrower than pronotum, eyes large and slightly protruding; antennae moderately robust, all antennomeres at least slightly elongate (
Fig. 32
); pronotum subquadrate, widest at apical third (
0.62 mm
); elytra flat- tened, distinctly elongate and broader than pronotum (
0.77 mm
, at shoulders), at suture about as long as pronotum; abdomen subparallel, broadest at apical third.
Male
. Tergite VIII with apical margin slightly sinuate, without teeth (
Fig. 34
); sternite VIII arcuately emarginate basally and broadly rounded apically (
Fig. 35
); tubus of median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view moderately wide, ventral margin curved basally, then straight to narrow, slightly curved apex (
Fig. 33
).
Female
. Apical margin of tergite VIII slightly sinuate, shallowly emarginate medially (
Fig. 36
); sternite VIII shallowly emarginate at base, apical margin truncate medially, rounded laterally (
Fig. 37
); spermatheca short, capsule club-shaped with deep apical invagination, stem narrow and straight, with spherical swelling posteriorly (
Fig. 38
).
Distribution. Origin
: Nearctic.
CANADA
: QC.
Habitat and collection data.
Habitat
. Found along margin of fast-flowing river above a waterfall. Adults were in exposed moss covered bedrock. The rarely collected
Bembidion
(
Pseudoperyphus
)
rufotinctum
Chaudoir (Carabidae)
occurred in the same habitat.
Collecting period
. VIII.
Collecting method
. Collected by splashing exposed moss-covered bedrock in river.