Gyrophaena laetula 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 : 23

Gyrophaena laetula Casey

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: MB, NB, NF. USA: DC, IL, IN, KY, MA, NY, PA, TN, VA, WI

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Birds Hill [Prov. Park] bur oak [trail], 2016-IX-16, 50.0083°N,

record 96.9216°W, 264 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male ;

Max Lake, 2016-IX-10, 49.0714°N, 100.1384°W, 686 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (LFC) 1 male.

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

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). Mixed forests (mature to old), regenerating mixed forest, red oak forest, red spruce and yellow birch forest, mature red spruce and red maple forest, old jack pine forest, and forested black spruce bog with red maple. Adults on/in fresh gilled mushrooms, on Pleurotus sp. on dead standing Populus tremuloides Michx , and in fresh Boletus mushrooms. Collecting period. VI–IX. Collecting method. S ifting mushrooms.