199. Devia prospera (Erichson) *

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Erichson 1839. Gusarov 2003. Webster et al. 2009. Majka and Klimaszewski 2010. Klimaszewski et al. 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021.

Distribution. Holarctic, recorded from A/S (Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NT, ON, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, CA, CO, MA, MI, MN, MT, NH, NM, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI, WY.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH male was captured in leaf litter under a fallen spruce. In Canada (NB) commonly found in moist leaf litter on the margins of vernal pools in silver maple swamps and mixed forests (Webster et al. 2009). Elsewhere taken in human settlements in stables, barns where it occurs in heaps of straw and haystacks; uncommon in a disturbed field with forbs and grasses as well as in rotting organic debris, mushrooms, willow humus and moss, and forest litter (Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Norton Pool, 2 mi E East Inlet Dam, 7.IX.1984, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter under fallen spruce, 1 male .