Boreophilia subplana
- 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
75. Boreophilia subplana (Sahlberg) *
(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2021), Table 1
References. Sahlberg 1880. Lohse et al. 1990. Gusarov 2003. Smetana 2004. Klimaszewski et al. 2016b, 2019, 2021.
Distribution. Holarctic, recorded from A/S (Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: NT, NU. USA: AK, NH.
Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured in September from dwarf birch litter, and dwarf Salix, Vaccinium, leatherleaf litter. In Canada and Alaska found in Salix leaf litter, on tundra hillside, in black spruce forest, at brackish shoreline, and under rocks and wrack. Collected from June to August using hanging Malaise traps, aspirating from under rocks/cobbles, sweeping low vegetation, use of pitfall traps and pollinator cup/pitfalls, and by processing leaf litters with Berlese funnels (Klimaszewki et al. 2021).
Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Mt. Washington, Alpine Garden, 5300’, 12.IX.1987, J.M. Campbell and A. Davies, sifting dwarf birch litter (CNC), 1 female. Mt. Washington above tree line, 5200–5700’, 10.IX.1987, J.M. Campbell and A. Davies, dwarf Salix, Vaccinium, leatherleaf litter (CNC) 1 male, 1 female. Mt. Washington is the type locality of the two junior synonyms Atheta (Metaxya) angusticornis Bernhauer (1907) and Metaxya plutonica Casey (1910).
Comments. Bernhauer (1907) described Atheta (Metaxya) angusticornis from Mount Washington, NH, USA. Gusarov (2003) transferred it to the genus Boreophilia, and considered it closely related to B. subplana, from which he differentiated it by the “shape of aedeagus, particularly a narrower apex of the median lobe in “parameral view” (Klimaszewski et al. 2021). We have studied the median lobe of AK and NH specimens and found no differences warranting different species recognition. The Mount Washington, NH, population represents an isolated, southernmost population of this species known only from higher latitudes.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Boreophilia
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Sahlberg
- Species
- subplana
- Taxon rank
- species
References
- 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
- Sahlberg, J. R. (1880) Bidrag till nordvestra Sibiriens insektfauna. Coleoptera. Insamlade under expeditionerna till obi och Jenessej 1876 och 1877. I. Cicindelidae, Carabidae, Dytiscidae, Hydrophilidae, Gyrinidae, Dryopidae, Georyssidae, Limnichidae, Heteroceridae, Staphylinidae och Micropeplidae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, Ny F ˆ ljd, 17 (4), 3 - 115, 1 pl.
- Lohse, G. A., Klimaszewski, J. & Smetana, A. (1990) Revision of arctic Aleocharinae of North America (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). The Coleopterists Bulletin, 44 (2), 121 - 202.
- Gusarov, V. I. (2003) Revision of some types of North American aleocharines (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), with synonymic notes. Zootaxa, 353 (1), 1 - 134. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 353.1.1
- Smetana, A. (2004) Family Staphylinidae Latreille, 1802 New nomenclatorial and taxonomic acts, and comments + subfamilies Omaliinae-Dasycerinae + subfamilies Phloeocharinae-Apateticinae + subfamilies Piestinae-Staphylininae. In: L ˆ bl, I. & Smetana, A. (Eds.), Catalogue of Palearctic Coleoptera. Vol. 2. Hydrophiloidea - Histeroidea - Staphylinoidea. Apollo Books, Stenstrup, pp. 29 - 35 + 237 - 272 + 329 - 495 + 504 - 698.
- Klimaszewski, J., Webster, R. P., Langor, D., Sikes, D., Bourdon, C., Godin, B. & Ernst, C. (2016 b) A review of Canadian and Alaskan species of the genus Liogluta Thomson, and descriptions of three new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae). In: Webster, R. P., Bouchard, P. & Klimaszewski, J. (Eds.), The Coleoptera of New Brunswick and Canada: providing baseline biodiversity and natural history data. Zookeys, 573 (Special Issue), pp. 217 - 256. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 573.7878
- Bernhauer, M. (1907) Neue Aleocharini aus Nordamerika. (Col.) (3. Stuck). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 1907 (4), 381 - 405. https: // doi. org / 10.1002 / mmnd. 48019070209
- Casey, T. L. (1910) New species of the staphylinid tribe Myrmedoniini. In: Memoirs on the Coleoptera. I. New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pp. 1 - 183.