Atheta (Dimetrota) capsularis Klimaszewski, 2005

Klimaszewski, Jan, Godin, Benoit, Davies, Anthony, Bourdon, Caroline & Horwood, Denise, 2018, Forty new records of aleocharine beetles, and two new species in the genera Acrotona Thomson and Atheta Thomson, for the province of Manitoba, Canada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Insecta Mundi 2018 (641), pp. 1-33 : 12

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5173990
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9415B2C5-9166-4014-985F-7955E72805D2
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5186702
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A5636478-EE03-FFB6-FF3D-BA3DFE8774B9
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Atheta (Dimetrota) capsularis Klimaszewski
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Atheta (Dimetrota) capsularis Klimaszewski View in CoL

Distribution

Origin	Nearctic
Distribution	Canada: LB, MB, NB, NF, ON, QC, YT. USA: not recorded.
New provincial record	Canada: Manitoba: Bead Lake, 2016-IX-13, 50.7868°N, 99.9928°W, 620 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male.
References	Klimaszewski et al. 2005, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In red spruce, balsam fir, jack pine, mixed and riparian type forests. Most specimens were from pitfall traps and flight intercept traps; some from forest litter. This species feeds on several species of yeasts and fungal spores based on contents in the posterior gut. Collecting period. VI–VIII. Collecting method. Sifting litter, pitfall traps, flight intercept traps.