Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) pulchella Heer 1839
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 pulchella

description: X. <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>pulchella</i> species group (Seevers, 1951: 703) 14. <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>antennalis</i> Casey Figs 13, 89–95; Map 10 <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>antennalis</i> Casey, 1906: 295; Seevers 1951: 704; Moore and Legner 1975: 427; Campbell and Davies 1991: 106. <b>Description.</b> Body length 2.0– 2.5 mm, narrowly oval; head and pronotum usually rufotestaceous; elytra testaceous to light brown, mottled with small irregular darker spots or (rarely) black posteriorly; abdomen rufo-testaceous, apical part of abdomen sometimes darker. Punctation: vertex of head with about 10 large umbilicate punctures on each side, pronotum with two irregular median rows of large punctures, scattered punctures elsewhere, elytra with fine, sparse punctures. Microsculpture: reticulate throughout. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. 13). Pronotum 1.2 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two lobe-shaped lateral teeth and usually with two to three small median teeth (Fig. 91); sternite 8 broadly rounded apically and with shallow median emargination (Fig. 92). Median lobe of aedeagus with tube-shaped tubus bearing two long ventral projections, apex rounded (Fig. 89), flagellum slightly projecting from the tip of median lobe (Fig. 89). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 90). FEMALE. Tergite 8 truncate apically (Fig. 94); sternite 8 rounded apically (Fig. 95); spermatheca as illustrated (Fig. 93). <b>Bionomics. Macrohabitat:</b> hardwood forest, on ridge with red oak surrounded by silver maple (<i>Acer saccharinum</i> L.) forest, mature mixed forest, mixed forest with hemlock, mature red spruce and red maple forest, eastern white cedar swamps, yellow birch, and spruce forest. This species has also been found in conifer forest and a white spruce (<i>Picea glauca</i> (Moench) Voss) forest. <b>Microhabitat:</b> on/in gilled mushrooms, on <i>Russula virescens</i> (Schaeff.) Fr., in <i>Climacodon septentrionale</i> (Fr.) Kar. on dead standing sugar maple (<i>Acer saccharum</i> Marsh.), on <i>Pleurotus</i> sp. on log. Also found on <i>Heterobasidium</i> <b>Map Ι0.</b> Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of <i>Gyrophaena antennalis</i> <i>annosum</i> (Fr.) Bref. (conifer-based polypore). <b>Collecting period:</b> August and September. <b>Collecting method:</b> sifting mushrooms, aspirating, and hand collecting specimens. <b>Distribution</b> (Map 10). CANADA: New Brunswick; UNITED STATES: Massachusetts, New York, and North Carolina.
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 106-107, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.219, http://zenodo.org/record/576536
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