Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) vitrina Casey. All 1906
Creators: name: Klimaszewski, Jan
name: Webster, Reginald
name: Savard, Karine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Staphylinidae
Gyrophaena
Gyrophaena vitrina

description: XII. <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>vitrina</i> species group (Seevers, 1951: 714) 22. <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>vitrina</i> Casey Figs 21, 139–144; Map 18 <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>vitrina,</i> Casey 1906: 291; Seevers 1951: 714; Moore and Legner 1975: 433; Campbell and Davies 1991: 107. <i>Gyrophaena attonsa</i> Casey, 1911: 184. Synonymized by Seevers 1951: 714. <b>Description.</b> Body length 2.4–3.5 mm, broadly subparallel; head rufo-piceous; pronotum flavate with dark median band; elytra brown with silvery luster; abdomen <b>Map Ι8.</b> Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of <i>Gyrophaena vitrina</i> flavate, apical portion of abdomen often slightly darker. Punctation: vertex of head with about six moderately-sized umbilicate punctures on each side, pronotum with two median rows of weak punctures and additional punctures elsewhere, elytra with fine, sparse punctures. Microsculpture: not apparent. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. 21). Pronotum 1.5 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two lateral teeth and usually two (occasionally four) small median teeth, apical margin slightly emarginate (Fig. 141); sternite 8 produced apically (Fig. 142). Median lobe of aedeagus with narrowly elongate tubus and ventrally produced apex (Fig. 139), projection of internal sac narrowly elongate, flagellum slightly everted (Fig. 139). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 140). FEMALE. Tergite 8 truncate apically (Fig. 143); sternite 8 produced posteriorly (Fig. 144); spermatheca not found [it may be very small and difficult to find or it is completely reduced]. <b>Bionomics. Macrohabitat:</b> mixed forest, hardwood forest, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, flood plain forest, and eastern white cedar swamps, and mature red spruce and red maple forest. <b>Microhabitat:</b> on gilled mushrooms on forest floor, on small gilled mushrooms on side of log, on bracket fungi, and on <i>Trametes hirsuta</i> on a poplar log. <b>Collecting period:</b> June, July, August, and September. <b>Collecting method:</b> sifting mushrooms and aspirating specimens. <b>Distribution</b> (Map 18). CANADA: <b>New Brunswick</b>, Ontario, and Quebec; UNITED STATES: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
description: Published as part of <i>Klimaszewski, Jan, Webster, Reginald &amp; 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, pp. 81-170 in ZooKeys 22 (22)</i> on pages 116-117, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.219, http://zenodo.org/record/576536
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