Mocyta fungi
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Mocyta
Name
Mocyta fungi (Gravenhorst) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Aleochara fungi Gravenhorst 1806[1]: 157; Muona 1984[2], Gusarov 2003[3], Smetana 2004[4], McLean et al. 2009[5], Klimaszewski et al. 2011[6]. For extensive synonymy, see Gusarov 2003[3] and Smetana 2004[4]. LECTOTYPE (female): Aleochara fungi Gravenhorst; Lectotype, V. Mahler des. 1986; Europa, nr. 5499; typus; fungi Gr. (ZMB) [examined by Klimaszewski].
Diagnosis
Body broadly oval (Fig. 5a), length 2.4–3.0 mm; body uniformly dark brown to black, in some specimens body black and posterior or central part of elytra with reddish tinge, appendages light brown; antennal articles I-IV elongate and V-X subquadrate or slightly transverse; pronotum broad, transverse, rounded laterally and arcuate basally; elytra transverse and ca. as long as pronotum or longer; abdomen broadly arcuate laterally (Fig. 5a). MALE: median lobe of aedeagus as illustrated (Figs 5b, c) [absent in North America]. FEMALE: spermatheca with capsule pear-shaped, as illustrated (Figs 5d–h); tergite VIII truncate apically (Fig. 5i); sternite VII broadly rounded apically with fringe of microsetae, distance between antecostal suture and base of disc narrow, antecostal suture sinuate (Fig. 5j). This species is externally very similar to Mocyta amblystegii and may be identified with certainty only by the shape of the spermatheca. The presence of males in Canadian populations of Mocyta amblystegii and lack of males in Canadian populations of Mocyta fungi may also aid in the identification of these species.
Distribution
Palaearctic, adventive in North America, cosmopolitan in many regions of the world (Smetana 2004[4]). Canada: YT, NU, BC, AB, SK, ON, QC, NB, NS, PE, LB, NF, and USA: AK, ME, MA, MN, NY, OR, RI (Moore and Legner 1975[7], Muona 1984[2], Gusarov 2003[3], Klimaszewski et al. 2005[8], 2007a[9], 2008[10], 2011[6], 2012[11], Majka and Klimaszewski 2008[12], 2010[13], Brunke et al. 2012[14]). We include new records of this species from Saskatchewan in Canada.
Natural history
Mocyta fungi is represented in North America by parthenogenetic females only. In Newfoundland, adults were collected in pitfall traps in cut and burned balsam fir, birch, spruce-poplar and riparian forests, in agricultural fields and amongst vegetation on coastal sand dunes (Klimaszewski et al. 2011[6]). The adult activity period in Newfoundland is June to September. Adults were captured by pitfall traps from May to September in forest litter in mixed wood, red spruce in New Brunswick and yellow birch forest in southern Quebec (Klimaszewski et al. 2005[8], Majka and Klimaszewski 2010[13]).
New jurisdictional records
CANADA: Saskatchewan: Cypress Hills, wet willow stand, 49,5978°, -109,9231°, 1134 m, 2.IX.2012, 2 males; wet pond, riparian, 49,6704°, -109,5005°, 1189 m (LFC) 1 female.
Taxon Treatment
- Klimaszewski, J; Webster, R; Bourdon, C; Pelletier, G; Godin, B; Langor, D; 2015: Review of Canadian species of the genus Mocyta Mulsant & Rey (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), with the description of a new species and a new synonymy ZooKeys, (487): 111-139. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Gravenhorst J (1806) Monographia Coleopterorum Micropterorum. Dieterich, Gottingae, 236 pp.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Muona J (1984) Review of Palaearctic Aleocharinae also occurring in North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 15: 227–231. doi: 10.1163/187631284X00190
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Gusarov V (2003) Revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synonymic notes. Zootaxa 353: 1–134.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Smetana A (2004) Subfamily Aleocharinae Fleming, 1921. In: Löbl I Smetana A (Eds) Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera, Vol. 2. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, 353–494.
- ↑ McLean J, Klimaszewski J, Li A, Savard K (2009) Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1. In: Majka C Klimaszewski J (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II. ZooKeys 22: 5–17. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.22.86
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Klimaszewski J, Langor D, Pelletier G, Bourdon C, Perdereau L (2011) Aleocharine beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia and Moscow, 313 pp.
- ↑ Moore I, Legner E (1975) A catalogue of the Staphylinidae of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera). University of California, Division of Agricultural Science, Special Publication No. 3015: 1–514.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Klimaszewski J, Sweeney J, Price J, Pelletier G (2005) Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in red spruce stands, eastern Canada: diversity, abundance, and descriptions of new species. The Canadian Entomologist 137: 1–48. doi: 10.4039/n03-123
- ↑ Klimaszewski J, Assing V, Majka C, Pelletier G, Webster R, Langor D (2007a) Records of adventive aleocharine beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) found in Canada. The Canadian Entomologist 139: 54–79. doi: 10.4039/n05-105
- ↑ Klimaszewski J, Godin B, Pelletier G, Savard K (2008) Six new species and records of aleocharine beetles from the Yukon and Alaska (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). The Canadian Entomologist 140: 265–291. doi: 10.4039/n07-054
- ↑ Klimaszewski J, Godin B, Bourdon C (2012) Further contributions to the aleocharine fauna of Yukon Territory, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). ZooKeys 186: 207–237. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.186.2674
- ↑ Majka C, Klimaszewski J (2008) New records of Canadian Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). In: Majka C Klimaszewski J (Eds) Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera. ZooKeys 2: 85–114. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.2.7
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 Majka C, Klimaszewski J (2010) Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the maritime provinces of Canada. ZooKeys 46: 15–39. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.46.413
- ↑ Brunke A, Klimaszewski J, Dorval J, Bourdon C, Paiero S, Marshall S (2012) New species and distributional records of Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Ontario, Canada, with a checklist of recorded species. ZooKeys 186: 119–206. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.186.2947
