Phloeopora gilbertae Klimaszewski & Webster

Webster, Reginald P., Klimaszewski, Jan, Bourdon, Caroline, Sweeney, Jon D., Hughes, Cory C. & Labrecque, Myriam, 2016, Further contributions to the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) fauna of New Brunswick and Canada including descriptions of 27 new species, ZooKeys 573, pp. 85-216 : 187-189

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.573.7016

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scientific name

Phloeopora gilbertae Klimaszewski & Webster
status

sp. n.

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Phloeopora gilbertae Klimaszewski & Webster View in CoL sp. n. Figs 494-500

Holotype (male).

Canada, New Brunswick, Sunbury Co., Gilbert Island, 45.8770°N, 66.2954°W. 18-28.V.2012, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel trap in canopy of Juglans cinerea (LFC). Paratypes: Canada, New Brunswick, Gloucester Co., Bathurst, Daly Point Nature Preserve, 47.6392°N, 65.6098°W, 13-28.V.2015, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Mixed forest, purple Lindgren funnel trap in canopy (1, AFC); same data but 25.VI-9.VII.2015, purple Lindgren funnel trap in canopy (1, AFC). Northumberland Co., ca. 1.5 km NW of Sevogle, 47.0939°N, 65.8387°W, 11-26.VI.2013, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Populus tremuloides stand with a few conifers, Lindgren funnel trap in canopy of Populus tremuloides (1 sex undetermined, RWC); ca. 2.5 km NW of Sevogle, 47.0876°N, 65.8613°W, 26.VI-8.VII.2013, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Pinus banksiana forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1 ♀, RWC). Queens Co., Cranberry Lake P.N.A., 46.1125°N, 65.6075°W, 25.V-7.VI.2011, M. Roy & V. Webster // Red oak forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1 ♂, RWC). Restigouche Co., Jacquet River Gorge P.N.A., 47.8257°N, 66.0764°W, 29.V-10.VI.2014, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Old Populus balsamifera stand near river, Lindgren funnel traps under trees (2 sex undetermined, AFC; 1 ♀, RWC). Sunbury Co., Gilbert Island, 45.8770°N, 66.2954°W, 18-28.V.2012, C. Alderson, C. Hughes, & V. Webster // Hardwood forest, Lindgren funnel trap 1 m high under Tilia americana (1 ♂, RWC); same data except 28.V-12.VI.2012 // Lindgren funnel trap in canopy of Juglans cinerea (1 sex undetermined, LFC; 2 ♂, 1 ♀, RWC); same data except 29.VI-11.VII.2012 (1 ♂, LFC; 1 ♂, RWC); same data except 20.VI-5.VII.2013 // Lindgren funnel trap in canopy of Populus tremuloides (1 ♂, RWC). York Co., 16 km W of Tracy, off Rt. 645, 45.6855°N, 66.8847°W, 18.V-2.VI.2010, R. Webster & C. MacKay, coll. // Old red pine forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1 ♀, LFC); Fredericton, Odell Park, 45.9539°N, 66.6666°W, 2-15.V.2013, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Hardwood stand, Lindgren funnel trap 1 m high under trees (1 ♂, RWC). Northwest Territories, vic. Inuvik, 5 km SE townsite, 68.32881°N, 133.63556°W, 17.VII-3.VIII.2001 mixed Picea - Betula forest // UHR ethanol funnel trap 1c, M. Gavel et al., collectors (1 ♂, LFC).

Etymology.

This species is dedicated to Amélie Gilbert (LFC), who dissected thousands of specimens of Aleocharinae for our projects.

Description.

Body length 2.2-2.4 mm, narrowly elongate, subparallel, black except tarsi and antennae reddish brown (Fig. 494); integument strongly glossy, moderately punctate and pubescent, pubescence short and adhering to body; head subequal to pronotum in size, pubescence directed outward and posterolaterad from midline of disk; eyes large, slightly shorter than postocular area; antennal articles incrassate and articles V–X moderately to strongly transverse; pronotum trapezoidal in shape, broadest subapically, narrower than elytra, pubescence directed almost straight posteriad; elytra elongate, with distinct narrowly rounded shoulders, pubescence directed straight and obliquely posteriad; abdomen subparallel with three basal tergites deeply impressed basally. Male. Median lobe of aedeagus with tubus long, narrow and curved ventrally (Fig. 495); tergite VIII truncate apically (Fig. 496); sternite VIII with apical margin obtusely triangularly produced in middle one-sixth (Fig. 497). Female. Tergite VIII broadly arcuate apically (Fig. 498); sternite VIIII with apical margin broadly triangularly produced, apex rounded (Fig. 499); spermatheca with capsule spherical, stem forming loose coil in apical half, sinuous and narrower basad (Fig. 500).

Distribution.

This species is known from NB and the NT and is likely transcontinental in Canada.

Natural history.

All adults of Phloeopora gilbertae from NB were captured in Lindgren funnel traps, most in hardwood forests. Specimens were captured in the canopy of a Populus tremuloides Michx. (trembling aspen) stand, in the canopy of Populus tremuloides , Juglans cinerea L. (butternut) and under Tilia americana L. (American basswood) in a hardwood forest on an island in a river, in Lindgren traps under Populus balsamifera L. in a Populus balsamifera stand near a river, in a red oak stand with Populus , a hardwood stand, and in a Pinus banksiana forest. The specimen from the Northwest Territories was collected in a Lindgren funnel trap in a mixed Picea - Betula forest. Adults were collected during May, June, July, and August. Other members of this genus live in subcortical habitats ( Klimaszewski et al. 2011, Webster et al. 2012), and we presume this species lives in similar habitats.

Comments.

This species may be separated from its Nearctic congeners by its body proportions, the uniformly black body color except for the appendages, and by the shape of the median lobe of the aedeagus in lateral view, and the spermatheca. It differs from the other two eastern Canadian species, Phloeopora oregona Casey and Phloeopora canadensis Klimaszewski and Langor by the black body (brown with darker head in Phloeopora canadensis and Phloeopora oregona ), the elongate rather than transverse elytra, the apical part of the median lobe of the tubus straight in lateral view (strongly produced in the other two species), the spermathecal stem forming a shorter loop, and male tergite VIII with the apex more abruptly produced than that of Phloeopora canadensis . For illustrations of Phloeopora canadensis , see Klimaszewski et al. 2011.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Staphylinidae

Genus

Phloeopora