Gyrophaena sculptipennis Casey

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 : 81

160. Gyrophaena sculptipennis Casey

(Illustrations in Seevers 1951, Klimaszewski et al. 2009c, 2018), Table 1

References. Casey 1906. Seevers 1951. Dollin et al. 2008. Klimaszewski et al. 2009c, 2016 a, 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: AB, NB, NS, ON, QC. USA: MA, NC, NH, NY, WI.

Collection and Habitat data. One NH specimen was captured in July–August by a flight intercept trap in a coastal backdunes forest. In Canada found in mixed forests, mature red spruce and red maple forests, hemlock forest (120+ years old), forested black spruce bog with red maple, and an old Pinus banksiana forest. Adults on/in fresh gilled mushrooms on forest floor, on stalked polypore mushrooms on forest floor, and on Pleurotus sp. on log ( Klimaszewski et al. 2009c, 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Rockingham Co.: Seabrook backdunes, 26.VII–10.VIII.1989, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 male .