Mocyta luteola (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 : 57

102. Mocyta luteola (Erichson)

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2015b, 2018), Table 1

References. Erichson 1839. Bland 1865. Bernhauer 1907. Blatchley 1910. Casey 1910 (as Dolosota redundans Casey ). Gusarov 2003 (list of synonyms). Klimaszewski et al. 2015b, 2016c, 2018. Brunke et al. 2021.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: MB, NB, NF, ON, QC. USA: DC, IA, IN, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH (NSR), NY, PA, RI, WI.

Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured from June to September; taken in old river drift at an old-growth silver maple floodplain forest. In Canada collected in a wide variety of habitats: (QC) specimens were captured in pitfall traps in yellow birch and balsam fir dominated forests; (NB), under decaying seaweed on sea beach, under drift material on riverbanks, in grass, moss, and leaf litter in alder swamps, eastern white cedar swamps, and Carex marshes; in Sphagnum moss and leaf litter in a young regenerating mixed forest, and in decaying (moldy) corncobs and cornhusks ( Klimaszewski et al. 2015b, 2018). Also, adults were found in litter around raspberry bushes near a bog, in a Typha marsh in a nest of Microtus pennsylvanicus (ON) , on a lake shore and in a Microtus pennsylvanicus nest (MN), and by sifting vegetable debris in a dump (IN) ( Klimaszewski et al. 2015b, 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Hwy 16, 5.6 km S Gorham, 9.IX.1987, A. Smetana ( CNC), 1 female . Grafton Co.: Bedell Bridge S. P. @ Oliverian Brook, 7.VI.1992, 14.VII.1992, 26.VIII.1992, D.S. Chandler, berlese old river drift, 3 females .