Gyrophaena flavicornis Melsheimer

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 : 22

Gyrophaena flavicornis Melsheimer

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: MB, NB, NS, ON, QC. USA: CT, DC, IL, IN, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO,

NC, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Moose Lake, 2016-IX-19, 49.2018°N, 95.3423°W, 353 m,

record mushroom, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (BGC) 1 male.

References Melsheimer 1844, Seevers 1951, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In mixed forest, hardwood forest, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, red oak forest, red oak and red maple forest, 8.5-year-old regenerating mixed forest, mature red spruce and red maple forest. Adults on/in gilled mushrooms on forest floor, in gilled mushroom on stump, on Pleurotus species growing on a log, on polypore (bracket) fungus on side of log, in Porodaedalea piceina (Peck) Niemalä on dead standing beech tree, on Russula delica , in decaying mushrooms, and on white fungus on white birch. Collecting period. VI–IX. Collecting method. Sifting mushrooms.