Xenodusa reflexa (Walker)

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 : 93

190. Xenodusa reflexa (Walker)

(Illustrations in Hoebeke 1976, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Walker 1866. Casey 1886 (as synonyms Lomechusa montana Casey and Atemeles cavus var. hirsutus Wasmann ). Hoebeke 1976. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008a. Webster et al. 2009. Klimaszewski et al. 2018, 2020.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: AB, BC, MB, NB, NS, ON, QC, SK. USA: AZ, CA, CO, CT, IL, IA, MA, MD, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, NH, NM, NV, NY, OR, RI, SC, UT, VT, WA, WI, WY.

Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured in a funnel trap baited with EtOH & a-pinene. Elsewhere reported from ant nests of Camponotus noveboracensis (Fitch) , C. laevigatus (F. Smith), C. herculeanus modoc Wheeler , and Formica subpolita Mayr ; one specimen from NB was captured in a Lindgren funnel trap in an old mixed forest; several QC specimens were found in December diapausing under a rock with a colony of ants at the border of an agriculture field (Hoebeke 1976, Webster et al. 2009, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Merrimack Co.: Wilmot, D.H. Kistner (Hoebeke 1976). Strafford Co.: Dover , 201 Tolend Rd. , 43.20434, -70.91486, 12.IX.2022, M.F. DiGirolomo, ex. funnel trap, EtOH & a-pinene, 1 sex? ( MFDC) .