Gymnusa grandiceps Casey 1915
Authors/Creators
- 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
144. Gymnusa grandiceps Casey
(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 1979, 2018, 2020, 2021), Table 1
References. Casey 1915. Klimaszewski 1979, 1982. Klimaszewski and Génier 1985. Webster et al. 2009. Majka and Klimaszewski 2010. Klimaszewski et al. 2011, 2018, 2020, 2021.
Distribution. Nearctic, transcontinental in Canada, recorded from A/S (Klimaszewski et al. 2021).
Canada: BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC. USA: IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, NH, NY, RI.
Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured in alder litter, litter by stream, and Alnus litter and Sphagnum near pond. Collected in March and September in NH; collected in April–May in ME. In Canada found in wet forested biotypes such as black spruce bogs (usually in lag zone), alder swamps, spruce and eastern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis L.) forests and swamps, vernal pond margins, and margins of small brooks under alders; in moist leaf litter and mosses in these habitats (Klimaszewski et al. 2021).
Material. USA, Maine, Waldo Co.: Camden Hills St. Pk., Mt. Battle, 29.V.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter along stream, 3 sex? York Co.: West Lebanon, 1–8.IV.1990, 1 sex?; 18–26.IV.1990, 2 sex?; 7–14.V.1990, 2 sex?; 7–13.V.1990, D.W. Barry, FIT, 1 sex? Maryland, Calvert Co.: 1 mi S Chesapeake Beach, 12.VI.1983, D.S. Chandler, sift beach litter along marsh, 1 sex? Massachusetts, Middlesex Co.: Sherborn, 21–25.III, C.A. Frost, sifting, 1 sex? New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Norton Pool, 2 mi E East Inlet Dam, 7.IX.1984, D.S. Chandler, sift alder litter, 1 sex? 17 km S Gorham, Glen Ellis Falls, 1900’, 8.IX.1987, J.M. Campbell and A. Davies, sifting litter by stream (CNC), 1 sex? 8 mi S Gorham, Pinkham Notch, J.M. Campbell and A. Davies, sifting Alnus litter and Sphagnum near pond (CNC) 1 sex? Rockingham Co.: Hampton, 27.III.1932, S.A. Shaw, 1 sex?
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Casey
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Coleoptera
- Family
- Staphylinidae
- Genus
- Gymnusa
- Species
- grandiceps
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Gymnusa grandiceps Casey, 1915 sec. Klimaszewski, Chandler, Davies & Bourdon, 2023
References
- Klimaszewski, J. (1979) A revision of the Gymnusini and Deinopsini of the world (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Research Branch Agriculture Canada Monograph, 25, 1 - 169.
- 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
- Klimaszewski, J., Hoebeke, E. R., Godin, B., Davies, A., Perry, K. I., Bourdon, C. & Winchester, N. (2020) Aleocharine rove beetles of British Columbia: a hotspot of Canadian biodiversity (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae). Springer, Cham, XI + 631 pp. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / 978 - 3 - 030 - 36174 - 7
- 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
- Casey, T. L. (1915) Studies in some staphylinid genera of North America. In: Memoirs on the Coleoptera. VI. The New Era Printing Co., Lancaster, Pennsylvania, pp. 395 - 450.
- Klimaszewski, J. (1982) A revision of the Gymnusini and Deinopsini of the world (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Supplementum 2. The Canadian Entomologist, 114 (4), 317 - 335. https: // doi. org / 10.4039 / Ent 114317 - 4
- Webster, R. P., Klimaszewski, J., Pelletier, G. & Savard, K. (2009) New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada. I. Aleocharinae. In: Majka, C. G. & Klimaszewski, J. (Eds.), Biodiversity, Biosystematics, and Ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II. ZooKeys, 22 (Special Issue), pp. 171 - 248. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 22.152
- Majka, C. G. & Klimaszewski, J. (2010) Contributions to the knowledge of the Aleocharinae (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. ZooKeys, 46, 15 - 39. https: // doi. org / 10.3897 / zookeys. 46.413
- Klimaszewski, J., Langor, D., Pelletier, G., Bourdon, C. & Perdereau, L. (2011) Aleocharine beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Pensoft Series Faunistica No. 98. Pensoft, Sophia-Moscow, 313 pp.