Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Natural Resources Canada, Québec, Canada
Author
Webster, Reginald
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service - Atlantic Forestry Centre, Charters Settlement, NB, Canada
Author
Savard, Karine
Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, Quebec ,, Canada
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ZooKeys
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III.
Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) laetula
species group (
Seevers, 1951: 685
) 6.
Gyrophaena
(
Gyrophaena
)
laetula
Casey
Figs 6, 46–52; Map 3
Gyrophaena laetula
Casey, 1906: 300
;
Seevers 1951: 685
;
Moore and Legner 1975: 430
.
Gyrophaena fustifer
Casey, 1906: 300
. Synonymized by
Seevers 1951: 685
.
Gyrophaena centralis
Casey, 1906: 301
. Synonymized by
Seevers 1951: 685
.
Description
.
Body length
1.5–1.7 mm
, stout and compact; head rufo-piceous; pronotum rufo-testaceous; elytra light brown; abdomen rufo-testaceous to reddishbrown with dark brown apical portion. Punctation: vertex of head with at least 10 large umbilicate punctures on each side, pronotum irregularly punctate, median rows with punctures confused by scattered punctures; elytra finely and sparsely
Map 3.
Collection localities in
New Brunswick
,
Canada
of
Gyrophaena laetula
punctate. Microsculpture: finely meshed and throughout. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. 6). Pronotum 1.7 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two large rounded teeth and 2–4 smaller median teeth (Fig. 48); sternite 8 broadly rounded apically (Fig. 49). Median lobe of aedeagus with moderately broadly elongate tubus with apical part produced ventrally and bearing small, narrow apical projection directed anteriad in lateral view (Fig. 46), dorsal projection of internal sac irregularly elongate in shape (Fig. 46). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 47). FEMALE. Tergite 8 truncate apically (Fig. 51); sternite 8 pointed apically (Fig. 52); spermatheca as illustrated (Fig. 50).
Bionomics
. Macrohabitat:
Mixed forests, mature mixed forests, regenerating mixed forest, red spruce and yellow birch forest, mature red spruce and red maple forest, forested black spruce (
Picea mariana
(Mill.)
BSP) bog with red maple.
Microhabitat:
on/in gilled mushrooms, on
Pleurotus
sp. on dead standing
Populus tremuloides
Michx.
Collecting
period:
June, July, August, and September.
Collecting method:
sifting mushrooms and aspirating specimens.
Distribution
(Map 3).
CANADA
:
New Brunswick
;
UNITED STATES
:
District of Columbia
,
Illinois
,
Indiana
,
Kentucky
,
Massachusetts
,
New York
,
Pennsylvania
,
Tennessee
,
Virginia
, and
Wisconsin
.