Ocyusa yukonensis Klimaszewski & Godin

Klimaszewski, Jan, Godin, Benoit & Bourdon, Caroline, 2012, Further contributions to the aleocharine fauna of the Yukon Territory, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), ZooKeys 186, pp. 207-237 : 213

Ocyusa yukonensis Klimaszewski & Godin sp. n. Figs 31632, 33

Holotype

(male). Canada, Yukon, EMAN Plot (Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network), mature white spruce and feathermoss forest, 60.5963, -134.9522, 8.VII.2003, 738 m, yellow pitfall trap (LMKM31Y), (LFC).

Paratype.

Yukon, EMAN Plot, 60.5963, -134.9522, 24.VII.2003, 738 m, black pitfall trap (LMKM31B), (ECW) 1 male.

Etymology.

Yukonensis - a Latin adjective derived from the Yukon Territory, Canada.

Diagnosis.

Body small, subparallel, robust, uniformly dark brown, almost black; length 2.8-3.0 mm; head round in outline and almost as wide as pronotum; antennae with article 4 subquadrate, 5-10 moderately transverse, increasingly wider apicad; pronotum transverse, angular posteriad and slightly narrower than maximum width of elytra; abdomen subparallel, at base as wide as elytra (Fig. 3). MALE: male tergite 8 widely truncate apically (Fig. 32); sternite 8 slightly produced at apex (Fig. 33); median lobe of aedeagus as illustrated (Fig. 16). FEMALE: unknown.

Distribution.

This native Nearctic species is known only from the type locality in the Yukon.

Bionomics.

Two adults were collected in July.