Thecturota tenuissima Casey

Klimaszewski, Jan, Struyve, Tim, Bourdon, Caroline & Dorval, Julie-Anne, 2017, First record of Thecturotatenuissima Casey from Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), ZooKeys 702, pp. 19-25 : 19

2. Thecturota tenuissima Casey Figs 9-15

Thecturota tenuissima Casey, 1893: 358. Fenyes 1918, 1920, Moore and Legner 1975, Seevers 1978, Sikes 2004.

Diagnosis.

Body length 1.5-1.7 mm; body narrowly subparallel, linear, yellowish brown with head, most of antennae, and apical part of abdomen dark brown to piceous, or body light brown with darker head and posterior abdomen or pronotum and elytra brown and remainder of the body dark brown to almost black; integument finely punctate; head subquadrate, larger than pronotum, with postocular area longer than diameter of eye, hind angles angular and rounded; antennomeres IV-X transverse and VI-X strongly transverse and about 2 times wider than long; pronotum broadest in apical third, narrow at base, pubescence directed laterad from midline of disc; elytra subparallel, at suture slightly longer than pronotum; abdomen subparallel, slightly broadening posterad. MALE: tergite VIII nearly as wide as long (Fig. 11); sternite VIII about as wide as long (Fig. 12); median lobe of aedeagus with tubus arcuate ventrally and narrow at apex in lateral view (Fig. 10). FEMALE: tergite VIII subquadrate (Fig. 13); sternite VIII rounded apically and in some specimens slightly emarginate medially (Fig. 14); spermatheca with subspherical capsule and without apical invagination, stem very short and sinuate (Fig. 15).

Distribution.

Origin: Nearctic. Canada: ON, QC. USA: RI.

Collection and habitat data.

Habitat: unspecified forests. Collecting period: VII. Collecting method: car netting.

New locality data.

CANADA, Quebec: Oka, ~ 45.49°N, 74.01°W, 12.VII.2016, car netting, Tim Struyve (LFC, TSC) 1 male, 15 females; Saint-Joseph-du-Lac, ~ 45.53°N, 74.02°W, 11.VII.2016, car netting, Tim Struyve (LFC, TSC) 4 males, 1 female; Port Rowan, ~ 42.62°N, 80.53°W, car netting, Tim Struyve (LFC, TSC) 2 females. Ontario: Algonquin Provincial Park near Petawawa, ~ 45.87°N, 77.33°W, car netting, Tim Struyve (LFC, TSC) 1 male, 1 female.