Gyrophaena (Gyrophaena) caseyi Seevers 1951
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 caseyi

description: 5. <i>Gyrophaena</i> (<i>Gyrophaena</i>) <i>caseyi</i> Seevers Figs 5, 39–45; Map 2 <i>Gyrophaena caseyi</i> Seevers, 1951: 684; Moore and Legner 1975: 428; Campbell and Davies 1991: 106. <b>Description.</b> Body length 1.6–2.0 mm, approximately broadly subparallel; head rufous, rufo-piceous to (rarely) black; pronotum rufo-flavate, sometimes darker basally; elytra flavate or flavo-testaceous, mottled with darker brown posterocentral section of disc; abdomen flavo-testaceous with slightly darker apex. Punctation: vertex of head with at least six umbilicate punctures on each side; pronotum moderately densely punctured; elytra finely, irregularly punctate. Microsculpture: finely meshed and strong on head and elytra, obsolete on pronotum. Antennae as illustrated (Fig. 5). Pronotum 1.4 times as wide as long. MALE: tergite 8 with two large rounded lateral teeth and two smaller median teeth (Fig. 41); sternite 8 broadly rounded apically (Fig. 42). Median lobe of aedeagus with approximately triangular tubus bearing median swelling and small and narrow apical projection directed dorsally in lateral view (Fig. 39), dorsal projection of internal sac narrowly elongate and twisted (Fig. 39). Paramere as illustrated (Fig. 40). FEMALE. Tergite 8 truncate apically (Fig. 44); sternite 8 slightly pointed medially (Fig. 45); spermatheca as illustrated (Fig. 43). <b>Bionomics. Macrohabitat:</b> mixed forest, mixed forest with hemlock, hardwood forest, yellow birch (<i>Betula alleghaniensis</i> Britt.) and spruce forest, red spruce forest, <b>Map 2.</b> Collection localities in New Brunswick, Canada of <i>Gyrophaena caseyi</i> mature red maple and red spruce forest. <b>Microhabitat:</b> on gilled mushrooms, on small gilled mushrooms on side of rotten logs, on <i>Pleurotus</i> sp. growing on side of logs. <b>Collecting period:</b> August and September. <b>Collecting method:</b> sifting mushrooms, aspirating, and hand collecting specimens. <b>Distribution</b> (Map 2). CANADA: <b>New Brunswick</b>, Quebec; UNITED STATES: Michigan, New York, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.
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 96-97, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.22.219, http://zenodo.org/record/576536
description: {"references": ["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."]}