Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) gilvicollis Casey 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 gilvicollis

description: 19. <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>gilvicollis</i> Casey Figs 18, 118–124; Map 15 <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>gilvicollis</i> Casey, 1906, 296; Seevers 1951: 709; Moore and Legner 1975: 429; Campbell and Davies 1991: 106 [cited doubtfully from Ontario with no locality records from Canada]. <b>Description.</b> Body length 1.8–2.2 mm, narrowly elongate; head piceous to black; pronotum flavate; elytra piceous to black with testaceous humeri and irregular small spots dispersed posteriorly; abdomen flavate, apical part of abdomen darker. Punctation: vertex of head with about 10 large umbilicate punctures on each side, pronotum with a few dispersed large punctures, elytra with fine and sparse punctures. Microsculpture: reticulate throughout except for pronotum, strongest on head. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. <b>Map Ι5.</b> Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of <i>Gyrophaena givicollis</i> 18). Pronotum 1.2 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two short medio-lateral lobes and two small median teeth, occasionally reduced to small tuberosities or absent, apical margin of disc emarginated medially (Fig. 120); sternite 8 emarginate apically (Fig. 121). Median lobe of aedeagus with elongate tubus bearing two short baso-ventral projections near crista apicalis (Fig. 118), flagellum projecting externally, sinuate in shape (Fig. 118). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 119). FEMALE. Tergite 8 truncate apically (Fig. 123); sternite 8 rounded apically (Fig. 124); spermatheca as illustrated (Fig. 122). <b>Bionomics. Macrohabitat:</b> mixed forest, hardwood forest, on ridge with red oak in silver maple forest, oak and red maple forest, and spruce forest. <b>Microhabitat:</b> on/in gilled mushrooms on forest floor, on decaying fleshy mushroom (one adult). <b>Collecting period:</b> August and September. <b>Collecting method:</b> sifting mushrooms and aspirating specimens. <b>Distribution</b> (Map 15). CANADA: <b>New Brunswick</b>; UNITED STATES: District of Columbia, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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 113-114, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.219, http://zenodo.org/record/576536
description: {"references": ["Casey TL (1906) Observations of the staphylinid groups Aleocharinae and Xantholinini, chiefly of America. Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis 16: 125 - 435.", "Seevers CH (1951) A revision of the North American and European staphylinid beetles of the subtribe Gyrophaenae (Aleocharinae, Bolitocharini). Fieldiana Zoology 32 (10): 659 - 762.", "Moore I, Legner EF (1975) A catalogue of the Staphylinidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera). Division of Agricultural Science, University of California Special Publication 3015: 514 pp.", "Campbell JM and Davies A (1991) Family Staphylinidae rove beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed) Checklist of beetles of Canada and Alaska. Agriculture Canada Research Branch III Series Publication 1861 / E: 1 - 430."]}