Philhygra angusticauda (Bernhauer)

Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Davies, Anthony & Bourdon, Caroline, 2023, Aleocharine rove beetles of New Hampshire, USA: new taxa and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 5364 (1), pp. 1-141 : 59

107. Philhygra angusticauda (Bernhauer) *

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Bernhauer 1909. Hatch 1957. Seevers 1978. Klimaszewski and Winchester 2002a. Webster et al. 2009. Klimaszewski et al. 2018, 2020, 2021. Brunke et al. 2021.

Distribution. Holarctic. Canada: AB, BC, NB. USA: AK, NH.

Collection and Habitat data. The two NH specimens were captured in May on wet rocks at the base of a waterfall. In Canada specimens were collected from gravel bars along shaded brooks in a northern hardwood forest (common), in a boreal forest (white spruce, black spruce, balsam fir), in a mature mixed forest, and in an alder swamp in debris on muddy soil near a brook flowing into a river; in BC found in pitfall traps in a clearcut and in the transition zone of a Sitka spruce forest ( Webster et al. 2009, Klimaszewski et al. 2021).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Beaver Brook Falls , 3 mi NE Colebrook, 28.V.1986, D.S. Chandler, base of falls, 1 male, 1 female .