Mocyta breviuscula (Mäklin)

Klimaszewski, Jan, Godin, Benoit, Davies, Anthony, Bourdon, Caroline & Horwood, Denise, 2018, Forty new records of aleocharine beetles, and two new species in the genera Acrotona Thomson and Atheta Thomson, for the province of Manitoba, Canada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Insecta Mundi 2018 (641), pp. 1-33 : 19

Mocyta breviuscula (Mäklin)

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, CA, NV, OR

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Cyprus Creek , 2016-IX-15, 49.5774°N, 101.3645°W, 510 m, records Willow litter, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male, 2 females ; Souris

River, 2016-IX-9, 49.5022°N, 99.9915°W, 402 m, river bank, oak litter, sifting, B.

Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 2 males, 1 female ; Souris River , 2016-IX-9, 49.5022°N ,

99.9915°W, 402 m, river bank, oak litter, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (LFC) 3

males, 3 females.

References Mäklin 1852, Klimaszewski et al. 2011, 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In NF, frequently captured in pitfall traps in various forest types such as birch, spruce-lichen, spruce-poplar, fir; also in vegetation on coastal dunes, in disturbed fields among grass and weeds, and on shrubby limestone barrens. In QC, from pitfall traps in yellow birch/balsam fir forests, and sifted from litter in an oak savanna/alvar in ON. One individual from sphagnum and litter in an eastern white cedar swamp and another captured in Lindgren funnel trap in an old red pine forest in NB. Collecting period. IV–IX. Collecting method. Pitfall traps, Lindgren funnel trap, sifting forest litter.