Myllaena audax Casey, 1911

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 : 94

193. Myllaena audax Casey

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski 1982, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Casey 1911. Klimaszewski 1982. Klimaszewski and Génier 1986. Klimaszewski and Frank, 1992. Klimaszewski et al. 2018, 2020, 2021.

Distribution. Nearctic, recorded from A/S (Kliaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: BC, LB, NB, NF, NT, ON, QC. USA: AK, CA, GA, IL, LA, MA, ME (NSR), NH, NJ, NY, OR, RI, UT, WA.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were captured in leaf litters, root mats, and grasses along the margins of or in swamps, marshes, and bogs; and in the Sphagnum mat of a kettle bog. Collected primarily by sifting leaf litters. Adults were found in nearly all months of the year. In Canada also recorded from a wide variety of wetland habitats, as well as in beaver lodge debris and in leaf litter on a beach ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, Maine, York Co.: West Lebanon, 10–16.VII.1990, D.W. Barry, UV trap, 1 male . Massachusetts, Middlesex Co.: Concord , 21.II.2008, along bog edge, T. Murray, 1 female . New Hampshire, Cheshire Co.: Pisgah St. Forest, Pisgah Valley For., 1080’, 20.VII.1990, D.S. Chandler, sift wet grass litter, 2 males, 1 female, 1 sex? Hillsborough Co.: Nissitissit River, 3 mi SE Brookline, 27.VII.1995, D.S. Chandler, UV lt., 1 sex? Rockingham Co. : Jct. 1A & 1B, near Foyes Corner , 12.V.1992, D.S. Chandler, sift litter along swamp margin, 1 sex? Strafford Co. : 1 mi SW Durham, 5.XII.1981, sift forest litter, 1 female, 1 sex ?; 21.IV.1982, sift litter by marsh, 1 male, 1 female; 15.X–4.XI.1987, FIT, 1 male, 1 female; 21.V.1982, sift litter along marsh edge, 1 sex?; 16.IV.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift litter along swamp margin, 2 males, 2 sex?; 20.V.1985, D.S. Chandler, berlese grass clumps in swamp, 1 sex? Spruce Hole , 3 mi SW Durham, 9.VI.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift oak, beach & huckleberry litter along bog margin, 1 male, 1 female ; 10.VI.1982, tread sphagnum mat, 1 male, 2 sex?; 17.XI.1987, berlese moss from mat, 1 female, 1 sex?; 27.III.1984, sift leaf litter on bog margin, 1 male; 30.VIII.1982, sift leaf litter along pond, 2 males, 5 sex?; 9.VI.1982, sift fern & pine litter on bog edge, 3 males, 8 sex?; 10.VI.1982, tread sphagnum mat, 3 sex?; 22.IV.1982, sift litter near bog, 1 female; 7.VI.1990, D.S. Chandler, 1 female; 11.IV.1990, G. Fortier, leaf litter & root mat, 1 female; 7.V.1990, D.S. Chandler, 1 female; 9.VI.1982, sift fern pine litter on bog edge 1 female; 17.XI.1987, berlese beech root mat on bog edge, 1 female, 26.V.1987, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter on bog margin, 3 sex? N end Spruce Hole, 3 mi SW Durham , 26.VII.1990, G. Fortier, aquatic vegetation, 1 female . S end Spruce Hole , 3 mi SW Durham, 20.VIII.1990, G. Fortier, leaf litter & root mat, 3 sex ?