Thamiaraea corverae (Klimaszewski and Webster)

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 : 68

127. Thamiaraea corverae (Klimaszewski and Webster)

(Illustrations in Webster et al. 2016), Table 1

References. Webster et al. 2016. Klimaszewski et al. 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: NB. USA (NCR): NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured by a flight intercept and a window trap in May and June. One site is an old-growth silver maple floodplain forest, the other a protected kettle bog. In Canada associated mostly with wet forest biotopes; specimens from Lindgren funnel traps in hardwood forest on island in river, and in seasonally flooded silver maple forests and marshes; adults with specific microhabitat data were sifted from moss and leaf litter near small vernal pools, moist litter under leatherleaf in a wetland dominated by leatherleaf, Chamaedaphne calyculata (L.), and from decaying grass along a river margin ( Webster et al. 2016).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Grafton Co.: Bedell Bridge St. Park @ Oliverian Brook , 7–24.V.1992, D.S. Chandler, FITrap, 1 male . Strafford Co.: Spruce Hole , 3 mi SW Durham, 9–10.VI.1982, D.S. Chandler, window trap, 1 female .

Comments. The generic placement of this species is not settled. Based on the morphology of median lobe of the aedeagus with a blade-like/triangular crista apicalis of the bulbus and differently shaped labial palps, this species shoud be transfered to a new genus belonging to the tribe Tachyusini . It superficially fits the new genus Belladonna Klimaszewski and Chandler described in this paper, but detailed study of the mouthparts and other charcters are needed before formal a transfer is concluded.