Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) caseyi Seevers, 1951

Klimaszewski, Jan, Webster, Reginald & Savard, Karine, 2009, Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information, ZooKeys 22 (22), pp. 81-170 : 96-97

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.22.219

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:7BA263D5-0C39-4EAD-AD7F-77F12D76776D

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3791049

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F287EC-FFAB-FFB1-FF43-FF5AFCD3FEF1

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scientific name

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) caseyi Seevers
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5. Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) caseyi Seevers View in CoL

Figs 5, 39–45; Map 2

Gyrophaena caseyi Seevers, 1951: 684 View in CoL ; Moore and Legner 1975: 428; Campbell and Davies 1991: 106.

Description. Body length 1.6–2.0 mm, approximately broadly subparallel; head rufous, rufo-piceous to (rarely) black; pronotum rufo-flavate, sometimes darker basally; elytra flavate or flavo-testaceous, mottled with darker brown posterocentral section of disc; abdomen flavo-testaceous with slightly darker apex. Punctation: vertex of head with at least six umbilicate punctures on each side; pronotum moderately densely punctured; elytra finely, irregularly punctate. Microsculpture: finely meshed and strong on head and elytra, obsolete on pronotum. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. 5). Pronotum 1.4 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two large rounded lateral teeth and two smaller median teeth (Fig. 41); sternite 8 broadly rounded apically (Fig. 42). Median lobe of aedeagus with approximately triangular tubus bearing median swelling and small and narrow apical projection directed dorsally in lateral view (Fig. 39), dorsal projection of internal sac narrowly elongate and twisted (Fig. 39). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 40). FEMALE. Tergite 8 truncate apically (Fig. 44); sternite 8 slightly pointed medially (Fig. 45); spermatheca as illustrated (Fig. 43).

Bionomics. Macrohabitat: mixed forest, mixed forest with hemlock, hardwood forest, yellow birch ( Betula alleghaniensis Britt. ) and spruce forest, red spruce forest,

Map 2. Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of Gyrophaena caseyi

mature red maple and red spruce forest. Microhabitat: on gilled mushrooms, on small gilled mushrooms on side of rotten logs, on Pleurotus sp. growing on side of logs. Collecting period: August and September. Collecting method: sifting mushrooms, aspirating, and hand collecting specimens.

Distribution (Map 2). CANADA: New Brunswick, Quebec; UNITED STATES: Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Tribe

Homalotini

SubTribe

Gyrophaenina

Genus

Gyrophaena

SubGenus

Gyrophaena

Loc

Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) caseyi Seevers

Klimaszewski, Jan, Webster, Reginald & Savard, Karine 2009
2009
Loc

Gyrophaena caseyi

Campbell JM & Davies A 1991: 106
Moore I & Legner EF 1975: 428
Seevers CH 1951: 684
1951
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