Gabrius lysippus Smetana, 1995

Webster, Reginald P., Davies, Anthony E., Klimaszewski, Jan & Bourdon, Caroline, 2016, Further contributions to the staphylinid fauna of New Brunswick, Canada, and the USA, with descriptions of two new Proteinus species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae), ZooKeys 573, pp. 31-83 : 69

Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Gabrius lysippus Smetana, 1995

Material examined.

New Brunswick, Albert Co., Caledonia Gorge P.N.A., 45.7930°N, 64.7764°W, 1.VII.2011, R. P. Webster //Small rocky clear-cold river (Caledonia Creek), splashing exposed rocks covered with moss in middle of river (2 ♀, NBM; 3 ♂, 1 ♀, RWC); Caledonia Gorge P.N.A., 45.7686°N, 64.8065°W, 2.VII.2011, R.P. Webster // McKinley Brook, rocky cool water, shaded brook, in moss on large rocks (2 ♂, 1 ♀, RWC); Caledonia Gorge P.N.A., 45.8432°N, 64.8411°W, 5.VII.2011, R.P. Webster // Turtle Creek, rocky, cold water & shaded creek, in saturated moss on rocks (1 ♂, NBM); Caledonia Gorge P.N.A., 45.7935°N, 64.7744°W, 22.V.2012, R.P. Webster // Crooked Creek, cold clear rocky stream, in Carex hummock in stream (1 ♀, RWC). Queens Co., C.F.B. Gagetown, 45.7516°N, 66.1866°W, 9-22.V.2013, C. Alderson & V. Webster // Old mixed forest with Quercus rubra , Lindgren funnel trap in canopy of Quercus rubra (1 ♂, AFC).

Distribution in Canada and Alaska.

QC, NB ( Bousquet et al. 2013).

Natural history.

Smetana (1995) reported Gabrius lysippus from wet moss on rocks at streams or along the margin of streams. This species was found in similar habitats in NB. Adults were collected by splashing exposed rocks covered with moss in the middle of a small rocky, cold river, and from moss and saturated moss on rocks in shaded brooks. One individual was found in a Carex hummock in a stream and one was caught in a Lindgren funnel trap in the canopy of a red oak. Small streams with moss-covered rocks were present at the latter site. Adults were collected in May and July.