Philhygra hygrotopora (Kraatz)

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 : 60

111. Philhygra hygrotopora (Kraatz) ‡

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Kraatz 1856. Webster et al. 2016. Klimaszewski et al. 2016c, 2018.

Distribution. Previously reported as adventive but it could be a Holarctic species. Canada: NB, NF. USA (NCR): NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. The single NH male was captured in May by a FIT in a regrowth boreal forest close to the Quebec border. In Canada found in moss near the splash zone of a waterfall, in gravel on the margin of a shaded spring-fed brook near a waterfall in a rich Appalachian hardwood forest, among gravel on a gravel bar along a shaded brook in northern hardwood forest; also, under decaying seaweed on a sea beach, near a seepage area ( Webster et al. 2016). Specimens from NF were found in gravel and moss on a riverbank, under seaweed on a sandy sea beach; and one was collected by sweeping vegetation in a riparian habitat ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018). In Europe found by fast-flowing water in moss and gravel; common on mountains and foothills, in lowlands by the ocean as well as by the Baltic Sea ( Lohse 1974).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: 1 mi NE East Inlet Dam, 10–26.V.1986, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 male .