Mniusa Mulsant & Rey, 1875

Webster, Reginald P., Klimaszewski, Jan, Bourdon, Caroline, Sweeney, Jon D., Hughes, Cory C. & Labrecque, Myriam, 2016, Further contributions to the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) fauna of New Brunswick and Canada including descriptions of 27 new species, ZooKeys 573, pp. 85-216 : 177

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Mniusa Mulsant & Rey, 1875

Comments.

Klimaszewski et al. (2014) reviewed the Canadian species of Mniusa and Ocyusa . In this review, Mniusa minutissima Klimaszewski & Langor was reported for the first time for NB and Mniusa odelli Klimaszewski & Webster was described as a new species. Klimaszewski et al. (2014) illustrated the male genitalia (Fig. 7b, c, d) of a specimen tentatively determined as Mniusa odelli but did not include it and other specimens from NS and QC in the type series because of the poor quality of the specimens. An additional male specimen confirmed as Mniusa odelli was found at the type locality in NB during 2014. The male genitalia conform to those illustrated in Klimaszewski et al. (2014) and are illustrated here along with the adult habitus. In light of this discovery, all NB specimens of Mniusa were reexamined, and it became apparent that some specimens originally determined as Mniusa minutissima were actually Mniusa odelli . Below, we present new and corrected data for the distribution of Mniusa minutissima and Mniusa odelli in NB that reflect these changes and additions.