Meotica pallens " (Redtenbacher, 1849) sensu Benick and Lohse 1974
Creators: name: Majka, Christopher
name: Klimaszewski, Jan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2008
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Meotica
Meotica pallens
Meotica "pallens" (redtenbacher, 1849) sensu benick and lohse (1974)

description: <i>Meotica “pallens”</i> (Redtenbacher, 1849) <i>sensu</i> Benick and Lohse (1974) <b>NOVA SCOTIA: Hants Co.:</b> St. Croix, 28.VII. 2007, M. Moseley, in wet moss in a gypsum sinkhole, (1 female, NSMC). This species is newly recorded for Nova Scotia and the Maritime Provinces (Fig. 1). In North America it has previously been recorded from British Columbia, New Jersey, Ontario, and Rhode Island (Gouix and Klimaszewski 2007; Klimaszewski et al. 2007). The earliest North American specimen was collected at the end of the 19th century by Casey in Rhode Island and was described by him as <i>Sipaliella <i>filaria</i> Casey, 1911, which was subsequently synonymized with <i>M. pallens</i> by Gusarov (2002).</i> The concept of <i>Meotica pallens</i> (Redtenbacher) in Europe is problematic. Canadian specimens are conspecific with the central European specimens cited as <i>M. pallens</i> (Redtenbacher) <i>sensu</i> Benick and Lohse (1974) (Klimaszewski et al. 2007). According to Muona (1991), <i>M. pallens</i> (Redtenbacher) is synonymous with <i>M. lohsei</i> Benick, <i>M.</i> <i>hanseni</i> Scheerpeltz, <i>M. strandi</i> Scheerpeltz, and <i>M. strandi sensu</i> Muona (1979), but is a different species from that listed from central Europe by Benick and Lohse (1974) under the same name. Following Klimaszewski et al. (2007) we employ the tentative name <i>M. “ pallens ”</i> (Redtenbacher) <i>sensu</i> Benick and Lohse (1974) for this specimen pending revisionary studies in Europe. Klimaszewski et al. (2007) reported a specimen in Ontario collected in a muskrat nest near a <i>Sphagnum</i> bog. Th e Nova Scotia specimen was collected in wet moss in a gypsum sinkhole. Muona (1991: 231) says that, “Th is species seems to live more or less subterraneously. It has been taken from burrows of small mammals and can be found by sieving rich soils around trees early in the spring as well as in flood refuse”. <i>Meotica pallens</i> (Redtenbacher) <i>sensu</i> Muona, 1991 is wing-dimorphic, with both brachypterous and macropterous forms. The Nova Scotia specimen is macropterous. A dorsal habitus photograph is provided in Fig. 4. For illustrations of the genitalia see Klimaszewski et al. (2007).
description: Published as part of <i>Majka, Christopher &amp; Klimaszewski, Jan, 2008, Adventive Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada: further contributions, pp. 151-174 in ZooKeys 2 (2)</i> on page 158, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.2.5, http://zenodo.org/record/576407
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