Gyrophaena keeni 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 : 23

Gyrophaena keeni Casey

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC, YT. USA: FL, MA, ME, MT,

NH, NY, OR, TN, WA, WY

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Bead Lake, 2016-IX-13, 50.7868°N, 99.9928°W, 620 m,

record mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( LFC) 1 male ; same locality data ( BGC) 1 male .

References Casey 1911, Seevers 1951, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). Mature mixed forest, 8.5-year-old regenerating mixed forest, red oak forest, eastern white cedar ( Thuja occidentalis L.) swamps, red spruce ( Picea rubens Sarg. ) and red maple ( Acer rubrum L.) forest (80–120 years old), black spruce Populus forests, recently burned coniferous forest, and an eastern hemlock forest [ Tsuga canadensis (L.)] 120+ years old. Adults in in gilled mushrooms, in gilled fungi on rotten log, in gilled mushrooms on stump, in moss near brook, on polypore fungi on dead standing Populus sp. Collecting period. VI–IX. Collecting method. S ifting mushrooms, sifting moss, flight intercept trap, and pitfall trap.