Ilyobates bennetti Donisthorpe, 1914

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 : 100-101

205. Ilyobates bennetti Donisthorpe †

(Illustrations in Brunke at al. 2012, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Donisthorpe 1914. Assing 1999. Majka and Klimaszewski 2008a,b. Webster et al. 2009. Brunke at al. 2012. Klimaszewski et al. 2016, 2018.

Distribution. Palearctic, adventive in Canada. Canada: NB, NF, NS, ON, QC. USA (NCR): NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were captured from May to July by flight intercept traps, and by splashing a river bank. Both sites were in river floodplains, one (Bedell Bridge) is an old-growth silver maple floodplain. In Canada found in litter at the base of a tree in a silver maple swamp, captured by Lindgren funnel traps in a silver maple swamp, in flood debris along river margins, in moss near waterfalls, in garden on bare soil in forested residential area, among decaying corncobs and cornhusks near a home in a forested residential area, in hedgerow in agricultural fields, pastures, and blueberry fields ( Webster et al. 2009, Klimaszewski et al. 2018). In Europe reported from synanthropic habitats such as urban meadows, lawns, fallow areas, gardens, strip mines, and in pioneer vegetation; it is also found in swamps, bogs, flood plains, riverbanks, meadows, grasslands, in leaf litter, moss, grass, compost, rotting debris, and under reeds and ferns ( Assing 1999).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Grafton Co.: 0.5 mi S Rumney Center, Baker River , 28.V–8.VI.1998, FITrap, D.S. Chandler, 1 female. Bedell Bridge St. Park @ Oliverian Brook , 23.VI–3.VII.1992, D.S. Chandler, FITrap, 1 sex ?; 17.VI.1992, splash river bank, D.S. Chandler, 1 sex?