Liogluta nigropolita
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Liogluta
Name
Liogluta nigropolita (Bernhauer, 1907) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Atheta nigropolita Bernhauer, 1907: 390. As Liogluta: Lohse and Smetana 1985[1]: 286.
- Liogluta nigropolitaSyntype (male): USA, New Hampshire, Mt. Washington (FMNH).
New locality data
CANADA: Quebec: Gt. Whale Riv., 5.IX.1949, J.R. Vockeroth (1 sex undetermined, CNC). Northwest Territories: Yellowknife, 62.50714°N, 113.39443°W, 236 m, mesic habitat replicate #2, Yellow Pan Trap #2, 15–18.VI.2011, col. NBP Field Party (1 ♀, LFC).
Diagnosis
This species may be distinguished by the following combination of characters: body elongate with elytra and abdomen broad, moderately robust, dark brown to black with tarsi and tibiae often reddish-brown, elytra sometimes with reddish tinge (Figs 35); length 3.5–4.0 mm; integument of forebody with moderately pronounced meshed microsculpture, surface highly glossy; head about one-eighth narrower than maximum width of pronotum (Fig. 35); pronotum transverse, about evenly wide in posterior half, then distinctly narrowing apicad, forming round apical angles (Fig. 35); elytra at suture slightly longer than pronotum (Fig. 35); basal four articles of metatarsus about the same length, each shorter than fifth article. Male. Tergite VIII with apical margin broadly arcuate, without teeth or crenulations (Fig. 38); sternite VIII rounded apically (Fig. 39); median lobe of aedeagus with tubus broadly arcuate ventrally and with apex narrow and pointed in lateral view (Fig. 36); tubus broad and triangular apically in dorsal view (Fig. 37). Female. Tergite VIII broadly arcuate apically (Fig. 40); sternite VIII evenly rounded apically, with antecostal suture distinctly sinuate (Fig. 41); spermatheca with spherical capsule with invagination deep and narrow, stem S-shaped, gradually becoming very narrow posteriad (Figs 42, 43).
Natural history
Adults occur in moss and leaf litter (Lohse et al. 1990[2]).
Distribution
Canada: LB, NF, NT, NU, QC, YT. USA: NH (Lohse et al. 1990[2]; Klimaszewski et al. 2012[3]; Bousquet et al. 2013[4]).
Comments
This species is probably transcontinental in northern Canada.
Taxon Treatment
- Klimaszewski, J; Webster, R; Langor, D; Sikes, D; Bourdon, C; Godin, B; Ernst, C; 2016: A review of Canadian and Alaskan species of the genus Liogluta Thomson, and descriptions of three new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) ZooKeys, (273): 217-256. doi
Images
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![Figures 35–43. Liogluta nigropolita (Bernhauer): 35 habitus in dorsal view 36 median lobe of aedeagus in lateral view 37 median lobe of aedeagus in dorsal view (36, 37 after Lohse et al. 1990[2]) 38 male tergite VIII 39 male sternite VIII 40 female tergite VIII 41 female sternite VIII 42, 43 spermatheca (43 after Lohse et al. 1990[2]). Scale bar of habitus = 1 mm, remaining scale bars = 0.2 mm.](/wiki/File:Zookeys-573-e7878-g006.jpg)
Other References
- ↑ Lohse G, Smetana A (1985) Revision of the types of species of Oxypodini and Athetini (sensu Seevers) described from Mannerheim and Mäklin from North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 39: 281–300.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Lohse G, Klimaszewski J, Smetana A (1990) Revision of Arctic Aleocharinae of North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin 44: 121–202.
- ↑ Klimaszewski J, Benoit B, Bourdon C (2012) Further contributions to the aleocharine fauna of the Yukon Territory, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). ZooKeys 186: 207–237. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.186.2674
- ↑ Bousquet Y, Bouchard P, Davies A, Sikes D (2013) Checklist of beetles (Coleoptera) of Canada and Alaska. Series Faunistica No. 109. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow, 402 pp.
