Myllaena arcana Casey, 1911

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 : 25-26

Myllaena arcana Casey

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: AB, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC, SK. USA: AL, FL, IA, IL, MA, ME, NH, NJ, TN, WV. MEXICO

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Adam Lake, 2016-IX-11, 49.0508°N, 100.0666°W, 689 m,

records mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male, 1 female ; same locality data ( LFC) 1 female ; Max Lake , 2016-IX-10, 49.0714°N, 100.1384°W, 686 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( LFC) 1 female .

References Casey 1911, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). Lives in debris in various riparian and wetland habitats; in leaf litter in areas with Carex on brook margin, river margin among cobblestones near outflow of brook, margin of large brook under alders among gravel on gravel bar, in leaf litter near seepage and brook in hardwood forest, in moist leaves on vernal pond margin in mixed forest, lake margins in wet leaf litter, inland margin of salt marsh in leaf litter, in Carex hummocks in marsh near small stream, in sphagnum hummocks on margin of tamarack bog, one from sifted from dead grass on pond margin, one from beaver lodge, some collected near streams, and in beaver lodge debris. Collecting period. II–XI (mainly V–VIII). Collecting method. sifting leaf litter, mushrooms (new data), turning gravel and cobblestones and aspirating specimens.