Silusa californica (Bernhauer)

Klimaszewski, Jan, Godin, Benoit, Davies, Anthony, Bourdon, Caroline & Horwood, Denise, 2018, Forty new records of aleocharine beetles, and two new species in the genera Acrotona Thomson and Atheta Thomson, for the province of Manitoba, Canada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Insecta Mundi 2018 (641), pp. 1-33 : 25

Silusa californica (Bernhauer)

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: MB, AB, BC, LB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, CA, MN

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Katherine Lake, 2016-IX-14, 50.6603°N, 99.8947°W, 652 m, record mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (LFC) 1 female.

References Bernhauer 1905, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In many hardwood and conifer forest types; unspecified hardwood forest types, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, red oak forest, old mixed forest with red oak, mixed forests, northern hardwood forest, coastal red spruce and birch forest, mature red spruce forest with eastern white cedar, old red spruce forest, spruce forest, white spruce forest, yellow birch/balsam fir forest, trembling aspen forest with a small amount of eastern balsam poplar, white birch forest, white spruce, and willow forests. In NB, adults common in decaying mushrooms in late summer; in fleshy fungi, in decaying gilled mushrooms, baited with pile of decaying mushrooms, fleshy fungi in various stages of decay, in gilled mushrooms, in rotten fungi. Elsewhere, in wet moss on forest floor, marten dung on moss, and in mushrooms. Collecting period. VII–X. Collecting method. Sifting mushrooms, baiting with mushrooms, pitfall traps, Luminoc pit-light traps, malaise traps, flight intercept traps, carrion baited traps, and sifting forest litter.