Aleochara (Xenochara) sculptiventris (Casey)

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 : 17

19. Aleochara (Xenochara) sculptiventris (Casey)

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski 1984, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Casey 1893. Klimaszewski 1984. Klimaszewski et al. 2005a, 2011, 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: NB, NF, ON, QC. USA: AL, AR, DC, MA, ME, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, VT, WI.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were captured by flight intercept and Malaise traps, and found in leaf litter below a birch tree sap drip, and in rotting lawn clippings. Collected from April to August. Elsewhere found in meadows, forests, pastures, river margins, lakeshores, mixed and hardwood forests, various decaying organic materials such as animal droppings (deer, dog, human feces), decaying fungi, carrion (fish, deer, crow), compost, algal mat on pond, oak-madrone duff, drift material along lake, in mud in a meadow, and entrances to groundhog ( Marmota monax (L.)) burrows ( Klimaszewski 1984, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Grafton Co.: Bedell Bridge S. P. @ Oliverian Brook , 7–24.V.1992, 25.V– 7.VI.1992, 8–22.VI.1992, 4–14.VII.1992, 15–26.VII.1992, 3–19.VIII.1992, D.S. Chandler, FITrap, 6 males, 7 females, 1 sex? Rockingham Co.: 1 mi W Odiorne Pt. , 17–19.VIII.1983, D.S. Chandler, malaise trap, 1 female . Strafford Co.: Durham , 26.V.1987, W.J. Morse, rotting lawn clippings, 1 male . 1 mi SW Durham , 27.IV–11.V.1987, 1 male ; 11–18.VI.1987, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 male ; 21.V.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter birch sap drip, 1 male . 4 mi W Durham , 3–5.VII.1982, R.M. Reeves, window trap, 1 male .