Lordithon longiceps
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Staphylinidae
Genus: Lordithon
Name
Lordithon longiceps (LeConte, 1863) – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
Material examined
New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Jackson Falls, Bell Forest, 46.2200°N, 67.7231°W, 16.IX.2006, R. P. Webster, mature hardwood forest, on Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P. Karsten on dead standing beech tree and on a beech log (2 ♂, 4 ♀, RWC); Meduxnekeag River Valley Nature Preserve, 46.1897°N, 67.6710°W, 12.IX.2008, R. P. Webster, mixed forest, on mass of Pholiota sp. mushrooms at base of dead standing Populus sp. (1 ♂, RWC). Restigouche, Co., Dionne Brook P.N.A., 47.9064°N, 68.3441°W, 31.V-15.VI.2011, K. Van Rooyen & C. Hughes, old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest, Lindgren funnel trap (1 ♀, RWC).
Collection and habitat data
Little is known about the habitat requirements of this rare species. Campbell (1982)[1] reported that adults have been taken on rotting gilled mushrooms. Most of the specimens from New Brunswick were collected from the fleshy polypore fungus, Bjerkandera adusta (Willd.) P. Karsten growing on a dead, standing American beech tree and a beech log. One individual was found in a mass of Pholiota sp. mushrooms at the base of a dead, standing Populus sp. Another individual was captured in a Lindgren funnel trap. Adults were found in mature hardwood and adjacent mixed forests, and in an old-growth white spruce and balsam fir forest. This species was collected during September in New Brunswick.
Distribution in Canada and Alaska
AK, BC, AB, ON, PQ, NB, NS (Campbell 1982[1]; Campbell and Davies 1991[2]). This northern species has a very broad distribution from Alaska to Nova Scotia, but with large distributional gaps between known localities (Campbell 1982[1]).
Taxon Treatment
- Webster, R; Sweeney, J; DeMerchant, I; 2012: New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick and eastern Canada: Tachyporinae ZooKeys, 186: 55-82. doi
Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Campbell J (1982) A revision of the genus Lordithon Thomson of North and Central America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 119: 1-116. doi: 10.4039/entm114119fv
- ↑ Campbell J, Davies A (1991) Family Staphylinidae rove beetles. In: Bousquet Y (Ed). Checklist of Beetles of Canada and Alaska. Research Branch Agriculture Canada Publication 1861/E: 86-124.
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