Reichenbachia corporalis Casey, 1897**

Webster, Reginald P., Chandler, Donald S., Sweeney, Jon D. & DeMerchant, Ian, 2012, New Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) records with new collection data from New Brunswick, Canada: Pselaphinae, ZooKeys 186, pp. 31-53 : 43-44

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.186.2505

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scientific name

Reichenbachia corporalis Casey, 1897**
status

 

Reichenbachia corporalis Casey, 1897** Map 17

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Carleton Co., Two Mile Brook Fen, 46.3619°N, 67.6733°W, 6.V.2005, M.-A. Giguère & R. P. Webster, old growth eastern white cedar swamp, in litter at base of cedar (1, RWC). Charlotte Co., ca. 9 km NW of New River, 45.2117°N, 66.6436°W, 13.VI.2008, R. P. Webster, eastern white cedar swamp, in sphagnum and grasses under alders (1, NBM). Northumberland Co., Goodfellow Brook P.N.A., 46.8943°N, 65.3796°W, 23.V.2007, R. P. Webster, old growth eastern white cedar swamp (many vernal pools), in litter, grasses and moss on hummocks near water (1, RWC). Queens Co., W of Jemseg at "Trout Creek", 45.8227°N, 66.1240°W, 9.V.2004, 4.VI.2004, R. P. Webster, silver maple swamp, sifting litter at base of large tree (2, RWC). Sunbury Co., Portobello Creek N.W.A., Maugerville, 45.8992°N, 66.4248°W, 18.VI.2004, R. P. Webster, silver maple forest, u.v. light trap (1, RWC); Sunpoke Lake marsh, 45.7663°N, 66.5537°W, 11.IX.2005, R. P. Webster, seasonally flooded marsh, in moist litter under Myrica gale L. bushes (1, RWC); Acadia Research Forest, 45.9866°N, 66.3841°W, 2-9.VI.2009, R. Webster & M.-A. Giguère, red spruce forest with red maple and balsam fir, Lindgren funnel trap (1, AFC). York Co., Charters Settlement, 45.8282°N, 66.7367°W, 9.IV.2005, R. P. Webster, Carex marsh, in leaf litter at base of trees and shrubs (2, RWC); same locality and collector but 45.8428°N, 66.7235°W, 9.IX.2005, 1.IV.2006, mixed forest, in leaf litter and moss near small brook (2, RWC); Mazerolle Settlement, 45.8729°N, 66.8311°W, 9.IV.2006, R. P. Webster, stream margin, in leaf litter at base of northern (eastern) white cedar (3, NBM).

Collection and habitat data.

In New Brunswick, adults of this species were collected in old eastern white cedar swamps and forests, silver maple swamps, a red spruce forest, a mixed forest, a Carex marsh, and a seasonally flooded marsh. Adults were sifted from leaf and/or conifer litter at the bases of trees, from sphagnum and grasses under alders and on hummocks near vernal pond margins, in moist leaf litter under Myrica gale L. bushes, and from leaf litter and moss near brook margins. One adult was collected in an ultraviolet light trap and another from a Lindgren funnel trap. Members of this species have been taken from sphagnum moss and from leaf litter of an alder/birch ( Betula sp.) mixture at the edge of a freshwater marsh ( Chandler 1997). Adults were captured during April, May, June, and September.

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

MB,ON, QC, NB ( Davies 1991; Carlton 2003) [reported from NB by Majka et al. (2011) in error, C. Majka, personal communication].