Two new species and new provincial records of aleocharine rove beetles from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

Abstract

Two new species, Atheta pseudovestita Klimaszewski & Langor, sp. n., Silusa prettyae Klimaszewski & Langor, sp. n., are described, and 16 new provincial records, including one new country record, of aleocharine beetles are presented for the province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Diagnostics, images of habitus and genital structures, distribution, bionomics information and new locality data are provided for the newly recorded species. A new checklist with 189 species of aleocharines recorded from the province is presented.

A survey of beetles (Coleoptera) from the tundra surrounding the Nunalleq archaeological site, Quinhagak, southwestern Alaska

“…For some specimens, such as those belonging to the Staphylinidae subfamilies Aleocharinae, Omaliinae and Staphyliniinae, as well as the Pterostichus subgenus Cryobius Chaudoir, this was facilitated by microdissections to allow observation of the genitalia. Identifications were aided by consultation of identification keys and descriptions in entomology publications (Anderson and Peck 1985, Arnett and Thomas 2001, Arnett et al 2002, Askevold 1991, Bousquet 1990, Bousquet 2010, Bright 1987, Buchanan 1927, Campbell 1978, Campbell 1984, Campbell 1991, Campbell 1983, Campbell 1982, Campbell 1973, Casey 1884, Downie and Arnett 1994, Downie and Arnett 1996, Gusarov 2004, Hatch 1971, Johnson 1991, Larson et al 2000, Lindroth 1961, Lindroth 1963b, Lindroth 1966, Lindroth 1968, Lindroth 1969a, Lindroth 1969b, Klimaszewski et al 2011, Klimaszewski et al 2008, Lohse et al 1990, O'Brien 1970, Ratcliffe 1996, Shavrin 2016, Smetana 1971, Wells 1991). Many specimens were identified, or had their identification confirmed, by taxonomic specialists.…”

“…Information regarding the ecology of individual taxa was compiled from habitat records and descriptions in the literature (Anderson and Peck 1985, Arnett and Thomas 2001, Arnett et al 2002, Askevold 1991, Ball 1966, Bousquet 1990, Bousquet et al 2013, Campbell 1973, Campbell 1978, Campbell 1982, Campbell 1983, Campbell 1984, Campbell 1991, Collet 2008, Elias 1992, Erwin 2007, Gordon 1985, Gusarov 2004, Hicks 1959, Horn 1880, Klimaszewski et al 2011, Klimaszewski et al 2008, Klimaszewski et al 2016, Larochelle and Larivière 2003, Larson et al 2000, Lindroth 1961, Lindroth 1963b, Lindroth 1966, Lindroth 1968, Lohse et al 1990, Majka and Langor 2008, Majka and Langor 2011, Matthews 1983, O'Brien 1970, Ratcliffe 1996, Shavrin 2016, Sikes et al 2016, Smetana 1971). This was then used to classify these taxa into broad habitat categories, as is customary in archaeo-entomological studies (Buckland 2009, Kenward 2009).…”

The diversity of terrestrial arthropods in Canada

“…For example, even following many years of sampling of Coleoptera in the Maritime Provinces, over 300 new beetle records were recently reported for New Brunswick (Webster et al 2016). Similarly, sampling in Newfoundland and Labrador, mainly from 2008 to 2014, resulted in 119 new provincial records, six new Canadian records, and 34 new species of aleocharine rove beetles (Klimaszewski et al 2011(Klimaszewski et al , 2016 and at least 90 new provincial records for other subfamilies of rove beetles (D Langor unpubl. data).…”