Placusa tachyporoides (Waltl)

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 : 112-113

241. Placusa tachyporoides (Waltl) †

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2001, 2018), Table 1

References. Waltl 1838. Klimaszewski et al. 2001, 2007, 2015a, 2016e, 2018, 2020, 2021. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008. Webster et al. 2022b.

Distribution. Palearctic, adventive in North America, recorded from A/S ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, LB, NB, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK. USA: AK, CA, MA, ME (NSR), MN, NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. A ME female was found on an oak log in September, and a NH female was attracted to a black light in June. In AK specimens were found in a Picea glauca forest and on a dried carcass ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021). In Canada found in sugar maple, yellow birch, balsam fir, black spruce, mixed trembling aspen, white spruce, and white pine stands; in NB collected by Lindgren funnel traps in an old-growth northern hardwood forest, a red oak forest, an old jack pine forest, and in a rich Appalachian hardwood forest. In Europe found in Acer , Alnus , Betula , Carpinus , Fagus , Populus , Quercus , Ulmus , Sorbus , and coniferous forests. Two individuals from NB were sifted from a pile of fairly fresh corncobs and cornhusks ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021).

Material. USA, Maine, Kennebec Co.: Augusta , 11.IX.1943, A.E. Brower, on oak log, 1 female . New Hampshire, Grafton Co.: Waterville , 10.VI.1974, black light trap, 1 female .