Brachygluta (Nisa) curvicera ( Motschulsky, 1854 )

Chandler, Donald S., Sabella, Giorgio & Bückle, Christoph, 2015, A revision of the Nearctic species of Brachygluta Thomson, 1859 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae), Zootaxa 3928 (1), pp. 1-91 : 13

2. Brachygluta (Nisa) curvicera ( Motschulsky, 1854)

Bryaxis curvicera Motschulsky, 1854: 4 . Type locality: New York City. Type depository unknown, lost?, male type. Bowman 1934: 143.

Brachygluta curvicera: Chandler 1997: 55 .

Collecting data. Under stones at the seashore.

Distribution: New York.

Comments. The type of this species could not be found in the Moscow State University Collection, the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki, or the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg (Sergei Kurbatov pers. comm.). In his description Motschulsky mentions that the antennal club is modified, which places this species in the subgenus Nisa , with both northern species of this subgenus commonly found in coastal New York. Motschulsky’s brief description of the antennal form is suggestive of the more common B. luniger (LeConte) , but until the type is found this synonymy is not formalized.