Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) modesta 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 modesta

description: 20. <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>modesta</i> Casey Figs 19, 125–131; Map 16 <i>Gyrophaena modesta</i> Casey, 1906: 296; Seevers 1951: 710; Moore and Legner 1975: 430; Campbell and Davies 1991: 106. <b>Description.</b> Body length 1.8–2.0 mm, narrowly subparallel; head rufo-piceous; pronotum flavate; elytra flavate with slightly darker irregularly distributed small spots; <b>Map Ι6.</b> Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of <i>Gyrophaena modesta</i> abdomen rufo-flavate, apical part of abdomen often darker. Punctation: vertex of head with about 10 large umbilicate punctures on each side, pronotum with about nine large punctures in two median rows and additional punctures elsewhere, elytra with fine, sparse punctures. Microsculpture: reticulate throughout except for pronotum, most evident on head. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. 19). Pronotum 1.5 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two lateral lobes and one or two small median teeth or teeth absent, apical margin of disc slightly emarginate (Fig. 127); sternite 8 rounded apically (Fig. 128). Median lobe of aedeagus with narrowly elongate tubus bearing one short ventral projection with blunt apex; flagellum extended and long, sinuate in shape (Fig. 125). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 126). FEMALE. Tergite 8 truncate apically (Fig. 130); sternite 8 rounded apically (Fig. 131); spermatheca as illustrated (Fig. 129). <b>Bionomics. Macrohabitat:</b> Mixed forest, hardwood forest, red spruce forest, red spruce and yellow birch forest, mature red spruce and red maple forest, mature red spruce and eastern white cedar forest, oak and red maple forest. This species has been collected in association with grasses. <b>Microhabitat:</b> on fresh gilled mushrooms on forest floor, in decaying gilled mushroom (one occurrence), and on <i>Pleurotus</i> sp. on log. <b>Collecting period:</b> August, September, and October. <b>Collecting method:</b> sifting mushrooms, aspirating, and hand collecting specimens. <b>Distribution</b> (Map 16). CANADA: New Brunswick; UNITED STATES: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, and New York.
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 114-115, 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."]}