Atheta (Microdota) festinans (Erichson)

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), Zootaxa 5364 (1), pp. 1-141 : 27

43. Atheta (Microdota) festinans (Erichson)

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

References. Erichson 1839. Bernhauer 1907. Blatchley 1910. Casey 1910. Gusarov 2003. Majka and Sikes 2009. Brunke et al. 2012. Klimaszewski et al. 2015c, 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: ON, QC. USA: AZ, CT, IA, IN, KS, MA, ME, MI, NH, NY, PA, RI.

Collection and Habitat data. In NH three females were captured by sweeping a lawn in October. In Canada taken by a pitfall trap in a hedgerow (ON), and from woody debris in a sandy pit in association with a Dyschirius sp. ( Carabidae ) (QC) ( Brunke et al. 2012, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Strafford Co.: Bellamy Road, 3.2. km S Dover, 15.X.2020, D.S. Chandler, sweep lawn, 3 females .

Comments. Gusarov (2003 a) remarked that all specimens seen of this species were females, and suggested that this species may be parthenogenetic. Congruently, the Ontario, Quebec ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018), and New Hampshire specimens were also females.