Cordalia obscura (Gravenhorst)

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 : 71

136. Cordalia obscura (Gravenhorst) †

(Illustrations in Hoebeke 1985, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Gravenhorst 1802. Muona 1984. Hoebeke 1985. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008. Klimaszewski et al. 2010, 2018, 2020. Webster et al. 2012.

Distribution. Palearctic, adventive in North America. Canada: BC, NB, NS, ON, QC. USA: CA, CO, CT, IL, MA, MD, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, WA.

Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured under beach wrack, in grass clippings, and in compost. In Canada found in forested and anthropogenic habitats such as decaying, moldy corncobs and cornhusks near a mixed forest, and in compost in mixed forests ( Webster et al. 2012, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Rockingham Co.: Odiorne Point St. Park, 15.VI.1982, under beach wrack, 1 sex ?; 8.IX.1986, D.S. Chandler, sift old wrack, 1 sex? Strafford Co.: 3 mi SE Dover , 29.IX.1986, D.S. Chandler, sift grass clippings, 4 sex? Ohio, Cuyahoga Co.: Cleveland, near Newburgh Hts ., 23.V.1987, D.S. Chandler, sift compost, 1 sex ?