Gyrophaena nanoides Seevers, 1951**

Webster, Reginald P., Klimaszewski, Jan, Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, and an addition to the fauna of Quebec, Canada: Aleocharinae, ZooKeys 186, pp. 83-118 : 90-91

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.186.2655

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5EB19EAF-490C-5456-9650-259B44D067C2

treatment provided by

ZooKeys by Pensoft

scientific name

Gyrophaena nanoides Seevers, 1951**
status

 

Gyrophaena nanoides Seevers, 1951** Map 12 View Map 12 illustrations Klimaszewski et al. (2011)

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., (Belleville) Meduxnekeag Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1980°N, 67.6854°W, 31.VIII.2006, R. P. Webster, mixed forest, on gilled mushroom(1 ♂, 2 ♀, NBM, RWC); same locality and collector but 46.1907°N, 67.6740°W, 7.IX.2004, mixed forest, on fleshy (gilled) fungi (1 ♂, 1 ♀, NBM); same locality and collector but 46.1897°N, 67.6710°W, 12.IX.2008, mixed forest, on gilled mushroom, (GYR-RW-8, 1 ♂, LFC); near Belleville, 1.3 km E jct. Rt. 540 & Plymouth Rd., 46.1860°N, 67.6847°W, 20.IX.2008, R. P. Webster, mixed forest with hemlock, on small gilled mushrooms on rotten log (GYR-RW-22, 1 ♂, LFC; GYR-RW-23, 1 ♂, NBM, GYR-RW-24, 1 ♂, NBM; GYR-RW-25, 1 ♂, NBM); same locality data and collector but 20.IX.2008, on Pleurotus sp. on log (GYR-RW-61, 1 ♂, NBM); Jackson Falls, "Bell Forest", 46.2200°N, 67.7230°W, 12.IX.2008, R. P. Webster, hardwood forest, on gilled mushroom on log (GYR-RW-36, 1 ♂, NBM; GYR-RW-37, 1 ♂, NBM; GYR-RW-35, 1 ♀, NBM; GYR-RW-27, 1 sex undetermined, NBM). Queens Co., Cranberry Lake P.N.A., 46.1125°N, 65.6075°W, 2.IX.2009, R. P. Webster, red oak forest, in small stalked polypore fungus on forest floor (1 ♂, RWC); same locality data, forest type, and collector, 22.IX.2009, in Boletus sp. (2 ♂, RWC). Restigouche Co., Jacquet River Gorge P.N.A., 47.8201°N, 65.9992°W, 12.VIII.2010, R. P. Webster, black spruce/balsam fir/cedar forest near Belledune Bog, in gilled mushroom (1 ♂, RWC); same locality and collector but 47.7883°N, 65.9819°W, 17.VIII.2010, black spruce forest, mossy forest floor, in Russula mushroom (2 ♂, NBM, RWC). Saint John Co., Chance Harbour, 45.1391°N, 66.3696°W, 24.VIII.2006, R. P. Webster, red spruce and birch forest, on gilled mushrooms (1 ♂, 1 ♀, LFC; 1 ♂, NBM; 2 ♂, RWC; Photo 2008-84, 1 ♂, LFC; Photo 2008-85, 1 ♀, LFC); same locality data and collector but 16.IX.2008, yellow birch & spruce forest, on gilled mushrooms on forest floor (GYR-RW-71, 1 ♂, NBM; GYR-RW-77, 1 ♂, NBM; GYR-RW-74, 1 ♂, LFC); Dipper Harbour, 45.1176°N, 66.3806°W, 12.IX.2006, R. P. Webster, red spruce forest, on gilled mushrooms (1 ♂, LFC; 2 ♂, RWC). Sunbury Co. Acadia Research Forest, 45.9799°N, 66.3394°W, 18.IX.2007, R. P. Webster, Road 7 control, mature red spruce and red maple forest, in gilled mushroom (1 ♂, AFC).

Collection and habitat data.

In New Brunswick, Gyrophaena nanoides was found in various deciduous and coniferous forest types, including hardwood forests with suga r maple ( Acer saccharum Marsh.), American beech, and white ash ( Fraxinus americana L.), an old red oak forest, a mixed forest with eastern hemlock ( Tsuga canadensis (L.) Carr.), mixed forests, red spruce forests, a black spruce forest, and a black spruce, balsam fir and eastern white cedar forest. Most adults were collected from fresh (not decaying) gilled mushrooms, including a Russula sp. Some specimens were collected from a stalked polypore fungus on forest floor, a Boletus sp., and a Pleurotus sp. on a log. Little was previously known about the habitat associations and bionomics of this species. Adults were collected during August and September.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

ON,QC, NB, NF ( Klimaszewski et al. 2009b, 2011).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Gyrophaena