Gyrophaena vitrina Casey

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

Gyrophaena vitrina Casey

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: MB, NB, ON, PE, QC. USA: AL, IL, IN, KY, ME, MI, NC, NH, NY, PA,

TN, WV, WI

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Hecla, 2016-IX-17, 51.7849°N, 96.6152°W, 218 m, mushroom,

record sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male ; same locality data ( LFC) 1 male .

References Casey 1906, Seevers 1951, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In mixed forest, hardwood forest, red oak forest, rich Appalachian hardwood forest, flood plain forest, eastern white cedar swamps, black spruce forest with Populus sp. , and mature red spruce and red maple forest. Adults on/in fresh, gilled mushrooms on forest floor, on small gilled mushrooms on side of log, on bracket fungi, and on Trametes hirsuta on a poplar log. Collecting period. VI–IX. Collecting method. Sifting mushrooms.