Dalotia coriaria (Kraatz)

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 : 49

83. Dalotia coriaria (Kraatz) †

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

References. Kraatz 1856. Bernhauer 1906, 1907. Casey 1910 (as Pseudota miscella Casey , Dimetrota crucialis Casey , and D. pectorina Casey ). Frank 1981. Muona 1984. Klimaszewski and Peck 1998. Gusarov 2003. Klimaszewski et al. 2007a, 2009a, 2013 a, 2018. Webster et al. 2009.

Distribution. Palearctic, now cosmopolitan, adventive in Canada and the USA. Canada: AB, BC, NB, NS, ON, QC. USA: CA, FL, LA, MA, NH (NSR), NJ, NY.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were found in greenhouses and in a house. Collected in February, April, October, and November. In Canada common in compost (decaying corncobs and vegetables) near a mixed forest, under decaying seaweed on sea beach, and one was taken from a Lindgren funnel trap in a silver maple swamp ( Webster et al. 2009). From other areas reported from rotting organic materials (grass heaps, carrion, mushrooms), and from forest litter ( Klimaszewski et al. 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Rockingham Co.: Brentwood , 28.XI.1977, homeowner, in house, 1 male, 2 females, 4 sex? Hampton , 20.IV.1926, S.A. Shaw, 1 male . Strafford Co.: Dover , 17.X.1965, 1 female . Durham , 20.II.1963, W.J. Morse, in greenhouse, 1 female ; 11.X.1954, R.L. Blickle, 1 female ; 9.VIII.1954, 2 females ; 11.X.1954, R.L. Blickle, 1 male, 2 females ; 20.II.1963, W.J. Morse, greenhouse, 9 females . Lee , 1.VII.1954, R.L. Blickle, 1 male .

Comments. This species is a predator of small arthropods, and is used in North America as a biological control agent in greenhouses ( Pochubay and Grieshop 2012).