Henoticus mycetoecus (Park, 1929)

Pentinsaari, Mikko, Anderson, Robert, Borowiec, Lech, Bouchard, Patrice, Brunke, Adam, Douglas, Hume, Smith, Andrew B. T. & Hebert, Paul D. N., 2019, DNA barcodes reveal 63 overlooked species of Canadian beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera), ZooKeys 894, pp. 53-150 : 53

Henoticus mycetoecus (Park, 1929)

Distribution.

Native to North America. Described from Illinois ( Park 1929), also recorded from Iowa ( Downie and Arnett 1996).

Canadian records.

Ontario: Rouge National Urban Park, 18-Jun-2013 to 25-Jun-2013 (1 ex, CBG).

Diagnostic information

(based on Park (1929)). Body length 1.8-2.0 mm. More or less uniformly red-brown, with legs, antennae, and medial part of elytra paler. Lateral margins of pronotum serrate, sublateral carinae absent. Posterior of pronotum with two deep foveae connected by a distinct basal groove.

Bionomic notes.

Park (1929) collected the type specimens from decaying fruiting bodies of the polypore fungus Climacodon septentrionalis (Fr.) P. Karst. in a sugar maple forest. The Canadian specimen was caught with a Malaise trap in a patch of forest.