Meotica pallens (Redtenbacher)

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 : 101

207. Meotica pallens (Redtenbacher) †

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2007 a, 2018), Table 1

References. Redtenbacher 1849. Benick and Lohse 1974. Muona 1991. Klimaszewski et al. 2007 a, 2018, 2020. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008b. Majka and Sikes 2009. Brunke et al. 2012. Webster et al. 2016.

Distribution. Palearctic, adventive in North America. Canada: BC, NB, NS, ON, YT. USA: NH (NSR), NJ, RI.

Collection and Habitat data. Two NH females were captured in meadow sod in October. In Canada recorded from an old-growth northern hardwood forest, mixed forests (NB), and a Sphagnum bog (ON) ( Brunke et al. 2012, Webster et al. 2016). Adults were found in a muskrat nest, among sticks, debris and mud on a beaver dam, and in leaf litter on clay near a small brook. One was captured in a Lindgren funnel trap in an old-growth hardwood forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA: New Hampshire, Strafford Co.: College Woods, Durham , 4.X.2007, Z.A. Bandola, B.W. Sanford, berlese meadow sod, 2 females .