Devia prospera (Erichson)

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 : 98

199. Devia prospera (Erichson) *

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

References. Erichson 1839. Gusarov 2003. Webster et al. 2009. Majka and Klimaszewski 2010. Klimaszewski et al. 2010, 2011, 2015, 2018, 2020, 2021.

Distribution. Holarctic, recorded from A/S ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NT, ON, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, CA, CO, MA, MI, MN, MT, NH, NM, OR, SD, UT, WA, WI, WY.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH male was captured in leaf litter under a fallen spruce. In Canada (NB) commonly found in moist leaf litter on the margins of vernal pools in silver maple swamps and mixed forests ( Webster et al. 2009). Elsewhere taken in human settlements in stables, barns where it occurs in heaps of straw and haystacks; uncommon in a disturbed field with forbs and grasses as well as in rotting organic debris, mushrooms, willow humus and moss, and forest litter ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Norton Pool , 2 mi E East Inlet Dam, 7.IX.1984, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter under fallen spruce, 1 male .