Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Atheta (Microdota) platonoffi Brundin

Atheta (Microdota) platonoffi (for diagnosis and illustrations, see Klimaszewski et al. 2011)

Distribution.

Natural history.

In Saskatchewan, adults were found on ferns and scat, and in wet spruce litter. In Newfoundland, adults were collected using carrion-baited pitfall traps and flight intercept traps in various mixedwood and coniferous forest types (Klimaszewski et al. 2011). In New Brunswick, adults were captured from litter in a red spruce forest (Klimaszewski et al. 2005). The adults were collected from June to August.