Atheta (Microdota) riparia Klimaszewski and Godin

Klimaszewski, Jan, Godin, Benoit, Davies, Anthony, Bourdon, Caroline & Horwood, Denise, 2018, Forty new records of aleocharine beetles, and two new species in the genera Acrotona Thomson and Atheta Thomson, for the province of Manitoba, Canada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Insecta Mundi 2018 (641), pp. 1-33 : 18

Atheta (Microdota) riparia Klimaszewski and Godin

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: MB, SK, YT. USA: not recorded

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Bead Lake , 2016-IX-13, 50.7868°N, 99.9928°W, 620 m, records mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( LFC) 2 males ; Hecla , 2016-IX-17 ,

51.7849°N, 96.6152°W, 218 m, mushroom, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (LFC) 1

male; Max Lake , 2016-IX-10, 49.0714°N, 100.1384°W, 686 m, mushrooms, sifting ,

B. Godin & D. Horwood (BGC) 2 males.

References Klimaszewski et al. 2012, 2016

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In various forest types, usually in mushrooms; red spruce forest, old-growth hemlock forest, mixed forests, deciduous forests, and a red oak forest; most individuals were found in gilled mushrooms and fleshy fungi in various stages of decay. Also from leaf litter and moss in Carex marsh and forest litter. Collecting period. VI–IX. Collecting method. Sifting litter and fungi, pitfall traps.