Gyrophaena sculptipennis Casey

Klimaszewski, Jan, Langor, David W., Hammond, H. E. James & Bourdon, Caroline, 2016, A new species of Anomognathus and new Canadian and provincial records of aleocharine rove beetles from Alberta, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), ZooKeys 581, pp. 141-164 : 151-152

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Gyrophaena sculptipennis Casey Figs 45-51

Gyrophaena sculptipennis Casey 1906: 298; Seevers 1951: 689.

Diagnosis.

This species is easily distinguishable from other Gyrophaena by body shape and colouration (Fig. 45), and the shape of the male and female genital structures (Figs 46-51). For a detailed description, see Seevers (1951).

Distribution.

Natural history.

Very little is known about the life history of this species. The Alberta specimen was captured in a window trap attached to aspen snag in a forest that burned 15 years previously. Adults were collected in Alberta in August and elsewhere in June and August ( Seevers 1951).

Comments.

This species is probably continuously distributed from Nova Scotia and New Brunswick to the eastern Rocky Mountains.