Atheta (Datomicra) dadopora Thomson

Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Davies, Anthony & Bourdon, Caroline, 2023, Aleocharine rove beetles of New Hampshire, USA: new taxa and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 5364 (1), pp. 1-141 : 25

40. Atheta (Datomicra) dadopora Thomson *

(Illustrations in Lee and Ahn, 2017, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Thomson 1867. Casey 1910. Gusarov 2003. Majka and Sikes 2009. Lee and Ahn 2017. Klimaszewski et al. 2018.

Distribution. Holarctic, recorded from Europe, China, India, Japan and South Korea. Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, MA?, NH (NSR), NY, PA, RI.

Collection and Habitat data. Specimens in NH were captured by window traps, and were found in fungi and in leaf litter at a birch sap drip. Collected from May to September. In Canada found in various mixed, coniferous, and hardwood forest types, usually in decaying materials such as decaying fungi and carrion. Collected by: Lindgren funnel traps in red spruce forest with red maple and balsam fir, unbaited pitfall traps in red spruce forest, spruce forest in decaying fleshy fungi, mixed forests on Pleurotus sp. on Populus log, red oak and red maple forest in gilled mushrooms, alder swamp on remains of dead deer, and rich Appalachian hardwood forest in fleshy fungi in various stages of decay. Also in compost, poplar/spruce litter, carrion, bison and caribou dung, and under the bark of decaying spruce logs ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Strafford Co.: 4 mi W Durham , 7–10.V.1982, 10–13.VI.1982, 9–12.VII.1982, 29.VII–1.VIII.1982, window trap, R.M. Reeves, 6 females, 1 sex ?; 10.V.1982, D.S. Chandler, mushrooms, 1 female . Barrington , 6.IX.1986, fungus, W.J. Morse, 1 female . 1 mi SW Durham , 21.V.1982, sift leaf litter birch sap drip, D.S. Chandler, 1 male, 2 females, 19 sex? Kingman Farm, 3.5 km N Durham , 47m, 3–17.IX.2009, ZOOL 745/845 class, forest, FIT, 1 female . Spruce Hole , 3 mi SW Durham, 21–23.VII.1987, 10–23.VII.1987, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 2 males .