Aleochara (Aleochara) tahoensis Casey, 1906

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 : 18

21. Aleochara (Aleochara) tahoensis Casey

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski 1984, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Casey 1906. Hatch 1957. Klimaszewski 1984. Klimaszewski et al. 2005a, 2016 a, 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: AB, BC, MB, NB, NF, NS, NT, ON, SK, YT. USA: AR, CA, CO, MT, NH, NM, NV, OR, SD, WA, WI.

Collection and Habitat data. Specimens in NH were captured from June to October by pitfall traps in dry and wet sites of a wet floodplain forest, and in a pine-oak barrens. Elsewhere found in forests and swampy areas in flood debris, debris around dead elm, under moose carcass, in leaf litter on a beaver dam, and along a lake shore in drift material. Some specimens were collected from pitfall traps in a mature red spruce ( Picea rubens Sarg. ) forest ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Merrimack Co.: Concord Airport, 1 mi E Concord, 13–26.VI.2001, C. Danderson, CZ-4a, pine-oak barrens, pitfall trap, 1 female . Rockingham Co.: Exeter River, 1.5 mi S Exeter, 11– 24.VII.1998, drier site, pitfall, 2 males, 1 female ; 8–20.VIII.1998, S. Durley, wetter site, pitfall, 1 female ; 22.IX– 15.X.1998, D.S. Chandler, drier site, pitfall, 1 female.