Philhygra luridipennis (Mannerheim)

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 : 61

113. Philhygra luridipennis (Mannerheim) ‡

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

References. Mannerheim 1830. Notman 1920. Palm 1970. Klimaszewski et al. 2011, 2018. Brunke et al. 2012. Webster et al. 2012.

Distribution. Holarctic, or Palearctic and adventive in North America. Canada: NB, NF, ON. USA: ME (NSR), NY?

Collection and Habitat data. The ME specimens were captured by a FIT, with the adults taken from July to September. In Canada found in riparian habitats in various deciduous and coniferous forest types; adults collected from gravel bars along shaded brooks in a northern hardwood forest and a boreal forest with balsam fir and white spruce, in gravel and under cobblestones on margin of a clear stream, from debris on muddy soil near brook in an alder swamp, in sand/clay mix under alders near river margin, in moss near splash zone of waterfall; others collected at a mercury vapor light and flying adults collected with butterfly net during the evening in a mixed forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018, 2021).

Material. USA, Maine, York Co.: West Lebanon, 24–30.VII.1990, 1 female ; 14–20.VIII.1990, 1 female ; 10– 16.IX.1990, 1 male, D.W. Barry, FITrap.