Gyrophaena nanoides Seevers, 1951

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 : 24

Gyrophaena nanoides Seevers

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: MB, NB, NF, ON, QC. USA: DC, IA, IN, KS, MA, NC, TN, VA, WI

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

records mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male ; Birds Hill [Prov. Park]

- bur oak [trail], 2016-IX-16, 50.0083°N, 96.9216°W, 264 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (LFC) 1 male.

References Seevers 1951, Klimaszewski et al. 2011, Webster et al. 2012, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In various deciduous and coniferous forest types, including hardwood forests with sugar maple, American beech, and white ash ( Fraxinus americana L.), an old red oak forest, a mixed forest with eastern hemlock, mixed forests, red spruce forests, a black spruce forest, and a black spruce, balsam fir and eastern white cedar forest. Most adults in NB 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. Collecting period. VII–X. Collecting method. S ifting mushrooms.