Philhygra terrestris 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 : 214

Philhygra terrestris Klimaszewski & Godin sp. n. Figs 102756, 57

Holotype

(male). Canada, Yukon, Whitehorse, Paddy’s Pond, 60.7067, -135.0917, 26.V.2007, 649 m, litter sifting, mixed forest (aspen and white spruce), B. Godin (LFC).

Etymology. This species name is an adjective that derives from the Latin word terra (ground, earth, soil).

Diagnosis. Body narrowly subparallel, head and abdomen black, pronotum and elytra brown, basal article of antenna and legs yellowish (Fig. 10); strongly glossy, with fine, dense punctation and meshed microsculpture on forebody; head round, distinctly narrower than pronotum with eyes as long as postocular region of head; antennae slender with articles 4-5 elongate, 6-10 subquadrate; pronotum slightly transverse and almost as wide as elytra; elytra at suture slightly longer than pronotum; length 2.9-3.0 mm (Fig. 10). MALE: tergite 8 widely arcuate apically (Fig. 56); sternite 8 elongate and rounded apically (Fig. 57); aedeagus with apex of median lobe broadly produced and with tubus constricted basally in lateral view (Fig. 27).

Female. unknown.

Distribution. This species is known only from Whitehorse in the Yukon but it may be more widely distributed in the boreal zone of Canada and Alaska.

Bionomics. This species was collected in May from ground litter.

Comments. This species is unique in the shape of the median lobe of the aedeagus in lateral view.