Twelve new species and fifty-three new provincial distribution records of Aleocharinae rove beetles of Saskatchewan, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)
Klimaszewski, Jan
Larson, David J.
Labrecque, Myriam
Bourdon, Caroline
ZooKeys
2016
610
45
112
43T5D
Klimaszewski & Webster
Insecta
Staphylinidae
Mocyta
CoL
Animalia
Mocyta sphagnorum
Coleoptera
26
71
Arthropoda
species
sphagnorum
Taxonclassification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae
(for details and illustrations, see Klimaszewski et al. 2015b)
Distribution. NBNFONQCSK SaskatchewanDLCDLCDLCDLCDLCDLCDLCDLCDLCDLCDLCDLC Klimaszewski et al. 2015b
Naturalhistory. In SK, specimens were captured from May through September from willow-aspen litter, hawthorn litter near creek, wet grass and weed clippings, moist spruce litter near stream, spruce litter, spruce-aspen litter, and in decaying mushrooms. In NB, adults were found in sphagnum moss and litter in calcareous eastern white cedar fens and in a black spruce forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2015b). One individual was collected from mouldy conifer duff at the base of a large pine in a mixed forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2015b). Adults were found in April and May in New Brunswick, and June to August elsewhere. This species often seems to be associated with moist sphagnum moss ( Klimaszewski et al. 2015b).
Comments. Males of this species can be mixed up with those of Mocyta breviusculaand positive identification may only be possible with female association as Mocytaare definitively identified by the shape of the spermatheca.