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
text
ZooKeys
2009
2009-09-28
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journal article
10.3897/zookeys.22.219
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IV.
Gyrophaena
(
Gyrophaena
)
illiana
species group (
Seevers, 1951: 688
) 7.
Gyrophaena
(
Gyrophaena
)
illiana
Seevers
Figs 7, 53–56; Map 4
Gyrophaena illiana
Seevers, 1951: 688
;
Moore and Legner 1975: 430
.
Description
.
Body length
1.7–1.8 mm
, stout and compact; head piceous; pronotum rufo-piceous to piceous; elytra uniformly brown or light brown with piceous posterior angles; abdomen rufo-testaceous to dark brown. Punctation: vertex of head with some eight small punctures on each side, pronotum with one conspicuous puncture in median row on each side and with a few scattered punctures elsewhere, elytra finely and sparsely punctate. Microsculpture: finely meshed throughout. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. 7). Pronotum 1.6 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two large and rounded teeth and some small median tuberosities (Fig. 55); sternite 8 pointed apically (Fig. 56). Median lobe of aedeagus with narrowly elongate and tapering tubus and ventrally projecting apex, apical projection small and narrow, directed anteriad in lateral view (Fig. 53), dorsal projection of internal sac narrow and sinuate (Fig. 53). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 54). FEMALE. Unknown.
Bionomics
. Macrohabitat:
red maple and red oak (
Quercus rubra
L.) forest.
Microhabitat:
on a polypore fungus growing on a log.
Collecting period:
August.
Collecting method:
sifting mushrooms and aspirating specimens.
Distribution
(Map 4).
CANADA
:
New Brunswick
;
UNITED STATES
:
Illinois
,
Indiana
, and
Wisconsin
.
Map 4.
Collection localities in
New Brunswick
,
Canada
of
Gyrophaena illiana