Nehemitropia lividipennis (Mannerheim)

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 : 58

104. Nehemitropia lividipennis (Mannerheim) †

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

References. Mannerheim 1830. Muona 1984. Moore and Legner 1975 (as Atheta (Coprothassa) sordida Marsh. ). Michaud et al. 2010. Klimaszewski et al. 2018. Brattain et al. 2020.

Distribution. Palearctic, adventive in North America, considered to be cosmopolitan by Smetana (2004). Canada: BC, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK. USA: CA, CO, DC, IA, LA, MA, MI, MN, NE, NH (NSR), NJ, NM, NY, OH (NSR), PA, TX, VT.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH and OH specimens were found in maple litter along stream in forest, in a birch log, and in compost. Collected from April to August and in November. In Canada found in open fields and pastures, open marsh, maple/beech forest, the edge of an oak forest, lake margin, and jack pine forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018). Adults in organic debris, including dead grass; in caribou, horse and cow dung; compost (common in decaying corncobs and cornhusks), rotting Boletus mushroom, and in nest of Microtus pennsylvanicus (Ord) . One individual was on cobblestones on the lakeshore, and some flying adults were collected a with butterfly net in the evening ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Carroll Co.: The Bowl , 2.5 mi NW Wonalancet, 1.XI.1984, D.S. Chandler, sift birch log, 1 female . Grafton Co.: Bedell Bridge St. Park @ Oliverian Brook , 3.VIII.1992, D.S. Chandler, berlese maple litter along stream in forest, 2 females . Rockingham Co.: Hampton , 12.IV.1928, 1.V.1923, 14.V.1924, S.A. Shaw, 3 males . Ohio, Cuyahoga Co.: Cleveland near Newburgh Hts. , 23.VI.1987, D.S. Chandler, sift compost, 2 males .