Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Devia prospera (Erichson)

Devia prospera (for diagnosis and illustrations, see Klimaszewski et al. 2011)

Distribution.

Natural history.

In Saskatchewan, adults were collected from alder/spruce and wet spruce litter in forests. In Newfoundland, adults were collected in abundance using pitfall traps in a patch of mixedwood forest in an urban area but were uncommon in a disturbed field with forbs and grasses (Klimaszewski et al. 2011). Elsewhere, adults were collected in human settlements from stables, barns, heaps of straw, haystacks, rotting organic debris, mushrooms, and forest litter (Klimaszewski et al. 2007a). The adults were collected from June to August.