Further contributions to the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) fauna of New Brunswick and Canada including descriptions of 27 new species
Author
Webster, Reginald P.
Author
Klimaszewski, Jan
Author
Bourdon, Caroline
Author
Sweeney, Jon D.
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Hughes, Cory C.
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Labrecque, Myriam
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ZooKeys
2016
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85
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.573.7016
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.573.7016
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Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae
Myrmecopora vaga (LeConte, 1866)
Figs 324-330
Material
examined.
New Brunswick, Westmorland Co., Petit-Cap,
46.1836°N
,
64.1468°W
, 19.VI.2012, R.P. Webster & D. Sabine // Sandy barrier beach, sifting drift material (mostly dried/decaying sea wrack) (1 ♀, LFC; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, RWC); same data but 17.VI.2014, M.-A.
Giguere
(2 sex undetermined, RWC).
Natural history.
Myrmecophora vaga
was sifted from drift material consisting mostly of dried and decaying sea wrack on a sandy barrier sea beach.
Majka et al. (2008a)
reported this species from a similar habitat (flotsam on small beach) from NS. A number of western Palaearctic species of
Myrmecopora
also live in beach drift on coastal sea beaches (
Assing 1997
).
Distribution in Canada and Alaska.
NS, NB (
Bousquet et al. 2013
).
Majka et al. (2008a)
reported this species for the first time for Canada from NS. The species has
not
been identified again in the Lake Superior region since the original description; although
Ahn and Ashe (1995
: 151) examined specimens in their phylogenetic study, they did not specify any locality data.
Comments
.
Myrmecopora vaga
bears superficial resemblance to European
Myrmecopora uvida
(Erichson) but has differently shaped median lobe of aedeagus with shorter and straight ventral part of tubus in lateral view which is longer and sinuate in
Myrmecopora uvida
, and by the shorter and broader stem of spermatheca. For illustrations of genitalia of
Myrmecopora uvida
see
Assing 1997
.
Figures 324-330.
Myrmecopora vaga
(LeConte): 324 habitus in dorsal view 325 median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view 326 male tergite VIII 327 male sternite VIII 328 female tergite VIII 329 female sternite VIII 330 spermatheca. Scale bar of habitus = 1 mm; remaining scale bars = 0.2 mm.