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Aleochara (Coprochara) bimaculata Gravenhorst 1802

  • 1. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, 506 West Burnside Road, Victoria, BC, Canada; V 8 Z 1 M 5 (emeritus). https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0003 - 3722 - 3662
  • 2. Dept. of Biological Sciences, Spaulding Hall, 38 Academic Way, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, USA 03824 (emeritus). https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0002 - 4093 - 2104
  • 3. Canadian National Collection of Insects, Arachnids and Nematodes, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K 1 A 0 C 6. https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0007 - 9506 - 9017
  • 4. Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P. E. P. S., P. O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, Quebec G 1 V 4 C 7, Canada. https: // orcid. org / 0009 - 0001 - 9009 - 2994

Description

1. Aleochara (Coprochara) bimaculata Gravenhorst

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski 1984, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Gravenhorst 1802; Klimaszewski 1984; Klimaszewski et al. 2018, 2021.

Distribution. Nearctic; widely distributed in Americas, reported from Arctic/Subarctic (A/S) (Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, QC, SK. USA: AL, AZ, CA, CO, DC, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, NE, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OK, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY. Mexico. Colombia. Ecuador. Brazil. Chile. Argentina.

Collection and Habitat data. Found in pig dung in a pasture on a farm in NH. Taken from June to October. Elsewhere recorded from diverse open and treed habitats; adults found in human feces and other animal droppings such as cow, horse, deer, dog; carcasses of dead animals such as rabbit, fish; decaying fungi, moss and leaf litter along streams, and plant debris in beaver lodges (Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Carroll Co.: Freedom, 8.VIII.1963, R.L. Blickle, ex. cow dung, 2 sex? Merrimack Co.: Hopkinton, 24.IX.1963, W.J. Morse, ex. cow dung, 1 sex? Rockingham Co.: Hampton, 3.X.1932, S.A. Shaw, 1 sex? 2 mi SE Epping, Rockingham Co. Farm, 27.VII.1986, 1 female; 31.VII.1986, S.C. Sherman, pig dung in pasture, 1 female. Strafford Co.: 1 mi SW Durham, 29.IX–13.X.2005, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 female. Durham, 25.VI.1965, R.L. Blickle, emerged ex. Sarcophaga puparium, 2 sex? Canada, Ontario, Toronto, 29.X.1932, L.J. Milne, under carrion, 1 sex?; 4.IX.1931, L.J. Milne, 1 sex?

Notes

Published as part of Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Davies, Anthony & Bourdon, Caroline, 2023, Aleocharine rove beetles of New Hampshire, USA: new taxa and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), pp. 1-141 in Zootaxa 5364 (1) on pages 9-10, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5364.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145460

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References

  • Klimaszewski, J. (1984) A revision of the genus Aleochara Gravenhorst of America north of Mexico (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 129, 1 - 211. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / entm 116129 fv
  • Klimaszewski, J., Webster, R. P., Langor, D. W., Brunke, A., Davies, A., Bourdon, C., Labrecque, M., Newton, A. F., Dorval, J. - A. & Frank, J. H. (2018) Aleocharine rove beetles of eastern Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae): a glimpse of megadiversity. Springer, Cham, XVI + 902 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 319 - 77344 - 5
  • Gravenhorst, J. L. C. (1802) Coleoptera Microptera Brunsvicensia nec non exoticorum quotquot exstant in collectionibus entomologorum Brunsvicensium in genera familias et species distribuit. Carolus Reichard, Brunsuigae, lxvi + 206 + 1 (errata) pp. https: // doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 9568
  • Klimaszewski, J., Brunke, A. J., Sikes D. S., Pentinsaari, M., Godin, B., Webster, R. P., Davies, A., Bourdon, C. & Newton, A. F. (2021) A faunal review of aleocharine rove beetles in the rapidly changing Arctic and Subarctic regions of North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Springer, Cham, XIV + 712 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 68191 - 3