Earota dentata (Bernhauer)

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 : 51-52

90. Earota dentata (Bernhauer)

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

References. Bernhauer 1906. Casey 1906, 1910. Gusarov 2002a. Klimaszewski and Winchester 2002. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008. Webster et al. 2009. Klimaszewski et al. 2011, 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic, transcontinental in Canada, recorded from A/S ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, ME, MD, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, VA, WA.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were captured almost entirely by flight intercept, window, and Malaise traps set in various forest types. One collection was produced by sifting old river drift. In Canada found in leaf litter near a brook margin in a red maple swamp, moss and leaf litter along small shaded brooks in mixed forests, under sea wrack on sea beach, among decaying corncobs and cornhusks (common). Flying adults were collected with a butterfly net late in the afternoon early in the spring (April), and some were taken by pitfall traps in a red spruce forest ( Webster et al. 2009). Elsewhere in Canada it has been reported from leaf litter, river debris, and pocket gopher ( Geomys sp. ) burrows. In AK, found in a Betula and Populus forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021).

Material. USA, Maine, York Co.: West Lebanon, 17–23.VII.1990, 2 females ; 1–8.IV.1991, D.W. Barry, FIT, 1 female . New Hampshire, Carroll Co.: 2 mi NW Wonalancet, 15–20.VI.1984, D.S. Chandler, window trap, 1 sex? The Bowl , 2.5 mi NW Wonalancet, 8–14.VI.1984, 15–20.VI.1984, D.S. Chandler, window trap, 1 male, 2 females ; 9–14.VI.1984, D.S. Chandler, malaise trap, 3 males, 1 female . Coos Co.: Norton Pool , 3 mi NE East Inlet Dam, 27.V–11.VI.1986, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 female . Grafton Co.: Bedell Bridge S. P. @ Oliverian Brook, 22.VI.1992, D.S. Chandler, berlese old river drift, 1 male ; 4–14.VII.1992, 8–22.VI.1992, D.S. Chandler, FITrap, 1 male, 1 female. Merrimack Co.: 1 mi E Concord, Concord Airport , CZ-4a, 19.IV–11.V.2001, D.S. Chandler, pine-oak barrens, FIT, 1 female . Strafford Co.: 1 mi SW Durham , 4.IV.1991, S.T. O’Keefe, water tower, 1 male, 1 female .