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Lypoglossa angularis

  • 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

96. Lypoglossa angularis (LeConte)

(Illustrations in Gusarov 2004, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. LeConte 1867. Hoebeke 1992. Gusarov 2004a. Majka and Klimaszewski 2010. Klimaszewski et al. 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic, transcontinental in Canada, recorded from A/S (Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, NB, NF, NS, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, AZ, CA, CO, ME, NH, NM, OR, WA, WY.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were captured by pitfall and flight intercept traps, and sifted from a wide variety of alpine/subalpine leaf litters. Collected from June to September. In AK taken in boreal forest and subalpine areas of shrubs and small trees as well as herbaceous tundra/heath, shrubby Krummholz, subalpine meadows, and flooded meadows. Also, under boards and driftwood, and near bear dung. In Canada found in gopher burrows, moss at edge of forest, in Betula, Picea and Alnus, Verathrum, and fern forest litters, and from a treeline subalpine meadow (Klimaszewski et al. 2021).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Carroll Co.: 1 mi N Wonalancet, E Fk. Spring Brk., 24–30.VII.1985, 1900’, D.S. Chandler, fl. intercept trap, 1 female. Coos Co:. Mt. Washington, Halfway house, 25.VI.1982, 15.VII.1982, R.M. Reeves, pitfall, 7 males, 4 females, 11 sex?; 18.VI.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift birch & fir litter, 1 female. Mt. Monroe, around Lakes of the Clouds, 5000–5100’, 10.IX.1987, Campbell and A. Davies, Vaccinium, dwarf Betula, leatherleaf litter near lake (CNC), 2 males; A. Smetana (CNC) 4 sex? Mt. Washington, Auto Rd., 4100’, 14.IX.1987, sifting Sphagnum under spruce tree near spring (CNC), 3 sex? Mt. Washington, Auto Rd. Mi 5.3, 4750’, Cragway Spring, 12.IX.1987, J.M. Campbell, sifting Alnus litter (CNC), 3 sex? Mt. Washington, above tree line, 5300–5700’, 10.IX.1987, Campbell and A. Davies, dwarf Salix, Vaccinium, leatherleaf litter (CNC), 3 sex? Mt. Washington, Alpine Garden, 5300’, 12.IX.1987, Campbell and A. Davies, sifting dwarf Betula litter (CNC), 2 sex? White Mts., Glen Boulder Trail, 2500’, 17.VIII.1976, J.M. and B.A. Campbell (CNC) 1 sex? Grafton Co.: 8 mi NW Bartlett Nancy Cascade, 2500’, 9.IX.1987, Sphagnum in mist zone of waterfall, Campbell and A. Davies (CNC) 1 sex? Strafford Co.: Spruce Hole, 3 mi SW Durham, 25.IX–14.X.1987, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 male. Wyoming, Bighorn Co.: 42 mi E Greybull, 10.VII.1992, R.M. Reeves, sift conifer leaf litter, 1 male.

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 page 54, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5364.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/10145460

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Lypoglossa
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
LeConte
Species
angularis
Taxon rank
species

References

  • 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
  • LeConte, J. L. (1867) Additions to the coleopterous fauna of the United States. No. 1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 18 (5), 361 - 394. [December 1866]
  • Hoebeke, E. R. (1992) Taxonomy and distribution of the athetine genus Lypoglossa Fenyes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) in North America, with description of a new species. Journal of the New York Entomological Society, 100 (2), 381 - 398.
  • Gusarov, V. I. (2004 a) A revision of the genus Lypoglossa Fenyes, 1918 (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae). Zootaxa, 747 (1), 1 - 36. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 747.1.1
  • 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., 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