Atheta (Dimetrota) fanatica Casey

Klimaszewski, Jan, Godin, Benoit, Langor, David, Bourdon, Caroline, Lee, Seung-Il & Horwood, Denise, 2015, New distribution records for Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), and new synonymies for Trichiusa, ZooKeys 498, pp. 51-91 : 58

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Atheta (Dimetrota) fanatica Casey

Atheta (Dimetrota) fanatica (for diagnosis and illustrations, see Klimaszewski et al. 2011)

Distribution.

Natural history.

In Saskatchewan, a female was captured in wet spruce litter, and one Newfoundland specimen was captured using a carrion-baited pitfall trap in a spruce/moss forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2011). In Alberta, one male was captured in an early decay stage of a white spruce log in spruce-aspen mixed forest. Elsewhere, adults were collected in the nests of several owl species, in maple forest, in oyster mushrooms ( Pleurotus sp.), and in organic material on standing trees ( Majka et al. 2006, Webster et al. 2009). The adults were collected from June to August.