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<taxonomicName authority="(Casey, 1910)" baseAuthorityName="Casey" baseAuthorityYear="1910" box="[140,472,730,756]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Acrotona" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="avia">
<emphasis bold="true" box="[140,310,730,756]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">Acrotona avia</emphasis>
(
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)
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:
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:
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,
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,
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, sand dunes, leaf litter, (
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;
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,
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)
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.
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<taxonomicName box="[185,334,871,897]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Acrotona" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="avia">
<emphasis box="[185,334,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">Acrotona avia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(
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) is newly recorded in
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(
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).
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<emphasis box="[868,1016,871,897]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">Acrotona avia</emphasis>
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was described by
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on the basis of specimens collected in Rhode Island. The bionomics of the species are unknown, however, it appears that
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<emphasis box="[755,833,941,967]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">A. avia</emphasis>
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could be associated with sandy, seacoast environments. Pomquet Beach (
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,
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) is a coastal barrier beach that lies between Pomquet Harbour and St. Georges Bay on the Gulf of St. Lawrence in
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. The specimens from that locale were collected in a coastal sand dune environment adjacent to a “slack” (a temporary water body lying between two dune crests). Saunderstown (Rhode Island) is located near the mouth of Narragansett Bay where it opens up onto Long Island Sound. The Casey family farm (
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,
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), where T.L. Casey lived and carried out collecting (
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), is located 0.35 km from the seacoast, immediately adjacent to a barrier beach and coastal lagoon environment very similar to the Pomquet Beach site in
<collectingRegion box="[763,902,1258,1284]" country="Canada" name="Nova Scotia" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">Nova Scotia</collectingRegion>
. Although there is no specific information that Casey collected the
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specimens from precisely this site, it appears probable that
<taxonomicName box="[418,498,1328,1354]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Acrotona" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="avia">
<emphasis box="[418,498,1328,1354]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">A. avia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
is associated with such coastal environments.
<taxonomicName authority="(Gyllenhal, 1808)" baseAuthorityName="Gyllenhal" baseAuthorityYear="1808" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" genus="Cercyon" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="litoralis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">Cercyon litoralis</emphasis>
(Gyllenhal, 1808)
</taxonomicName>
[
<taxonomicName authorityName="Latreille" authorityYear="1802" box="[434,601,1363,1390]" class="Insecta" family="Hydrophilidae" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Hydrophilidae</taxonomicName>
] and
<taxonomicName authority="Melsheimer, 1844" authorityName="Melsheimer" authorityYear="1844" box="[662,1048,1363,1390]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Stenus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="erythropus">
<emphasis box="[662,843,1363,1390]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">Stenus erythropus</emphasis>
Melsheimer, 1844
</taxonomicName>
[
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] were collected together with
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<emphasis box="[588,666,1399,1425]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">A. avia</emphasis>
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at Pomquet Beach.
</paragraph>
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Until this present report from
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the species has not otherwise been reported from outside
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. It is likely that it is not as restricted in distribution as these limited records would appear to indicate, but rather
<bibRefCitation author="Sikes DS" box="[890,1108,1504,1531]" firstAuthor="as Sikes" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" refId="ref17974" refString="Sikes DS (2004) The beetle fauna of Rhode Island: an annotated checklist. Kingston, Rhode Island: Rhode Island Natural History Survey, volume 3, 296 pp. http: // collections 2. eeb. uconn. edu / collections / insects / ribf / ribfcontents. html [accessed 30 July 2008]" type="book" year="2004">as Sikes (2004: 10)</bibRefCitation>
pointed out, “…even in well-studied, temperate regions, a great deal of basic taxonomic work remains to be done”.
</paragraph>
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<bibRefCitation author="Gusarov" box="[185,352,1610,1636]" firstAuthor="Gusarov" pageId="8" pageNumber="123" refId="ref16399" refString="Gusarov VI (2001 - 2003) A catalogue of the athetine species of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae: Athetini). http: // nhm. ku. edu / ksem / peet / catalogs / cataweb. htm [accessed 30 July 2008]" type="url" year="2001">
Gusarov (
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</bibRefCitation>
-2003) listed this name as a junior synonym of
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<emphasis box="[878,1108,1610,1636]" italics="true" pageId="8" pageNumber="123">Acrotona subpygmaea</emphasis>
Bernhauer, 1909
</taxonomicName>
. However, we have specimens at hand from
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(see Klimaszewski et al. 2005: 14, 15, 34) examined by him and identified as
<taxonomicName authority="Bernhauer" authorityName="Bernhauer" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Acrotona" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="125" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subpygmaea">
<emphasis box="[947,1108,166,193]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">A. subpygmaea</emphasis>
Bernhauer
</taxonomicName>
, which clearly belong to a different species. For this reason we provisionally retain
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<emphasis box="[211,288,237,263]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">A. avia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
as a distinct species until proper revisionary studies are finalized. We confirm however, that
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<emphasis box="[350,475,272,298]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">A. puritana</emphasis>
(
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)
</taxonomicName>
[originally
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<emphasis box="[763,872,272,298]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">Colpodota</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
] is a junior synonym of
<taxonomicName authority="(Casey)" baseAuthorityName="Casey" box="[168,339,307,334]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Acrotona" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="125" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="avia">
<emphasis box="[168,245,308,334]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">A. avia</emphasis>
(Casey)
</taxonomicName>
. We were able to examine four
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of
<taxonomicName box="[809,885,308,334]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Acrotona" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="125" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="avia">
<emphasis box="[809,885,308,334]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">A. avia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
from
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, Boston Neck, housed in the Casey collection in
<collectingRegion box="[693,828,342,368]" country="United States of America" name="Washington" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">Washington</collectingRegion>
(USNM). We designate here the female bearing the following labels as the
<typeStatus box="[710,815,378,404]" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">lectotype</typeStatus>
: “R.I., a
<emphasis box="[908,941,378,403]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">via</emphasis>
-3,
<typeStatus pageId="10" pageNumber="125">paralectotype</typeStatus>
USNM, 38993, Casey bequest 1925”, and Gusarovs unpublished
<typeStatus box="[959,1108,413,439]" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">paralectotype</typeStatus>
label: “
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,
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<emphasis box="[392,555,448,474]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">Colpodota avia</emphasis>
Casey
</taxonomicName>
, female, V.I. Gusarov des. 2000” (USNM) [genital structures well preserved]. The remaining three specimens then become
<typeStatus pageId="10" pageNumber="125">paralectotypes</typeStatus>
: R.I., Casey bequest 1925,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Casey" authorityYear="1910" box="[566,612,519,544]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Colpodota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="125" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="avia">
<emphasis box="[566,612,519,544]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">avia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-2,
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USNM 38993,
<typeStatus box="[939,1104,518,544]" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">paralectotypus</typeStatus>
,
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<emphasis box="[140,301,554,580]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">Colpodota avia</emphasis>
Casey
</taxonomicName>
, male, V.I. Gusarov des. 2000 (USNM) male [aedeagus missing in the attached vial]; R.I. same labels as the
<typeStatus box="[589,690,589,615]" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">lectotype</typeStatus>
except,
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<emphasis box="[779,825,590,615]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">avia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-1, Type USNM 387993, Gusarovs unpublished
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designation label 2000 (USNM)
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; and R.I.,
<taxonomicName authorityName="Casey" authorityYear="1910" box="[140,186,660,685]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Colpodota" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="10" pageNumber="125" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="avia">
<emphasis box="[140,186,660,685]" italics="true" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">avia</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
-4 (USNM)
<specimenCount box="[327,425,659,685]" pageId="10" pageNumber="125" type="female">1 female</specimenCount>
. We have designated a female specimen as a
<typeStatus box="[915,1016,659,685]" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">lectotype</typeStatus>
because the female of this species may be easily distinguished by having the apical margin of sternite eight deeply emarginate (
<figureCitation box="[468,547,730,756]" captionStart="Figs 5-11" captionStartId="9.[140,180,1590,1612]" captionTargetBox="[154,1098,175,1539]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[140,1108,165,1542]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Figs 5-11. Genital structures of Acrotona avia: 5-8 male: Fig. 5, median lobe of aedeagus in dorsal view, and Fig. 6 in lateral view; Fig. 7, tergite VIII, and Fig. 8 sternite VIII; figures 9-11 female: Fig. 9, spermatheca; Fig. 10, tergite VIII; Fig. 11, sternite VIII." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3770914" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3770914/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">Fig. 11</figureCitation>
) and by the shape of the spermatheca (
<figureCitation box="[978,1044,730,756]" captionStart="Figs 5-11" captionStartId="9.[140,180,1590,1612]" captionTargetBox="[154,1098,175,1539]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[140,1108,165,1542]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Figs 5-11. Genital structures of Acrotona avia: 5-8 male: Fig. 5, median lobe of aedeagus in dorsal view, and Fig. 6 in lateral view; Fig. 7, tergite VIII, and Fig. 8 sternite VIII; figures 9-11 female: Fig. 9, spermatheca; Fig. 10, tergite VIII; Fig. 11, sternite VIII." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3770914" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3770914/files/figure.png" pageId="10" pageNumber="125">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
), and because the male genital structures were missing in the only male specimen in the type series. To avoid potential confusion in identification of this species in the future we provide for the first time the images of the body and the genital structures (
<figureCitation box="[948,1024,166,193]" captionStart="Figs 1-4" captionStartId="7.[140,180,1622,1644]" captionTargetBox="[185,1061,1111,1596]" captionTargetId="figure@7.[180,1067,1105,1603]" captionTargetPageId="7" captionText="Figs 1-4. Dorsal habitus: Fig. 1, Acrotona avia; Fig. 2, Oligota parva; Fig. 3, Strigota ambigua; Fig. 4, Myrmecopora vaga." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3770912" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3770912/files/figure.png" pageId="11" pageNumber="126">Figs. 1</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation box="[1038,1093,166,193]" captionStart="Figs 5-11" captionStartId="9.[140,180,1590,1612]" captionTargetBox="[154,1098,175,1539]" captionTargetId="figure@9.[140,1108,165,1542]" captionTargetPageId="9" captionText="Figs 5-11. Genital structures of Acrotona avia: 5-8 male: Fig. 5, median lobe of aedeagus in dorsal view, and Fig. 6 in lateral view; Fig. 7, tergite VIII, and Fig. 8 sternite VIII; figures 9-11 female: Fig. 9, spermatheca; Fig. 10, tergite VIII; Fig. 11, sternite VIII." figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3770914" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/3770914/files/figure.png" pageId="11" pageNumber="126">5-11</figureCitation>
). The body and the genital structures of
<taxonomicName authority="(Bernhauer)" baseAuthorityName="Bernhauer" baseAuthorityYear="1909" box="[566,865,202,229]" class="Insecta" family="Staphylinidae" genus="Acrotona" higherTaxonomySource="GBIF,CoL" kingdom="Animalia" order="Coleoptera" pageId="11" pageNumber="126" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="subpygmaea">
<emphasis box="[566,724,202,228]" italics="true" pageId="11" pageNumber="126">A. subpygmaea</emphasis>
(Bernhauer)
</taxonomicName>
are published in Figs.
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, based on V.I. Gusarovs identification.
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