Dinaraea angustula (Gyllenhal)

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 : 50

84. Dinaraea angustula (Gyllenhal) †

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

References. Gyllenhal 1810. Muona 1984. Klimaszewski et al. 2007a, 2011, 2012, 2013b, 2016a, 2018, 2020, 2021. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008, 2010. Webster et al. 2009.

Distribution. Palearctic, adventive in Canada and the USA, recorded from A/S ( Klimaszewski et al. 2021). Canada: AB, BC, LB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT. USA: CA, MA (NSR), NH (NSR), NY, PA.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were captured in grass litter and sod, and from leaf litter. Collected in February in MA, and from April to May in NH. In Canada found in an open dry area with a Purshia association (BC), agricultural fields and disturbed urban meadows, cattail and sedge marshes, mixed forests, coastal dunes, and lakeshores. Adults in compost (decaying corncobs and cornhusks and vegetables), soil and organic debris, among vegetation on a coastal sand dune, in litter in a cattail marsh, in leaf litter along a vernal pond, and in drift material along a lakeshore ( Webster et al. 2009, Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, Massachusetts, Worcester Co.: Wachusett Meadows, Mass Audubon , Princeton , 19.II.2010, T. Murray, 1 male . New Hampshire, Belknap Co.: Lower Gilmanton , 23.IV.1982, S.L. Radke, leaf litter, berlese, 1 male ; S.L. Radke , berlese grass litter and sod, 1 male . Rockingham Co.: Kingston , 4.V.1964, W.J. Morse, 1 female .