Toxidium gammaroides LeConte, 1860**

Webster, Reginald P., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada: Scaphidiinae, Piestinae, Osorinae, and Oxytelinae, ZooKeys 186, pp. 239-262 : 245

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.186.2506

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Toxidium gammaroides LeConte, 1860**
status

 

Toxidium gammaroides LeConte, 1860** Map 9

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1896°N, 67.6700°W, 26.IX.2007, R. P. Webster, hardwood forest, on Pholiota sp. on base of dead standing beech (1 ♂, RWC); Jackson Falls, Bell Forest, 46.2200°N, 67.7231°W, 1-8.VI.2009, 19-31.VII.2009, M.-A. Giguère & R. Webster, mature hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel traps (2, RWC). York Co., (Canterbury) near Browns Mountain, 45.8874°N, 66.6274°W, 8.IX.2007, R. P. Webster, hardwood forest, in polypore fungi under bark (1, RWC); Charters Settlement, 45.8286°N, 66.7365°W, 13-17.VII.2008, R. P. Webster, mature mixed forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1, RWC).

Collection and habitat data.

Members of this genus are associated with polypore species on old logs (Newton et al. 2001). In New Brunswick, Toxidium gammaroides was found in mature hardwood forests and in a mixed forest. Adults were collected from a group of Pholiota sp. on the base of a dead standing American beech and in polypore fungi under bark. Adults were also captured in Lindgren funnel traps. This species was collected during June, July, and September.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON, QC, NB ( Campbell 1991).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Toxidium