Atheta (Datomicra) particula (Casey)

Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Davies, Anthony & Bourdon, Caroline, 2023, Aleocharine rove beetles of New Hampshire, USA: new taxa and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 5364 (1), pp. 1-141 : 35

57. Atheta (Datomicra) particula (Casey)

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

References. Casey 1910. Klimaszewski et al. 2005a, 2007, 2018. Majka and Klimaszewski 2010. Brunke et al. 2012.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: NB, NS, ON, QC. USA: NH (NSR), NY, RI.

Collection and Habitat data. The single NH female was captured in an old-growth coniferous forest near the border with Quebec in September by a FIT. In Canada found in hardwood, mixed, and coniferous forests, usually in fungi such as decaying mushrooms, small white gilled mushrooms, polypore fungi on log, Russula mushrooms, and a large (old) fleshy polypore fungus on a beech log. Also collected using Malaise pan traps and unbaited pitfall traps in a hemlock forest, sugar maple forest, red spruce dominated forest (common), a yellow birch forest, and an old field ( Klimaszewski 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Norton Pool , 3 mi NE East Inlet Dam, 13–26.IX.1986, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 male .