Mocyta fungi (Gravenhorst)

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 : 20

Mocyta fungi (Gravenhorst) †

Distribution

Origin	Palearctic, adventive in North America
Distribution	Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, NU, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, CA,
ME, MA, MN, NH, NY, OR, RI, WA
New provincial	Canada: Manitoba: Birds Hill [Prov. Park] - bur oak [trail], 2016-IX-16,
records	50.0083°N, 96.9216°W, 264 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (BGC)
1 female; Cyprus Creek, 2016-IX-15, 49.5774°N, 101.3645°W, 510 m, willow
litter, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (BGC) 3 females; Souris River, 2016-IX-
9, 49.5022°N, 99.9915°W, 402 m, river bank, oak litter, sifting, B. Godin & D.
Horwood (LFC) 5 females; Hecla, 2016-IX-17, 51.7849°N, 96.6152°W, 218 m,
mushroom, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (LFC) 1 female.
References	Gravenhorst 1806, Klimaszewski et al. 2015b, 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). Found in various forest types and wetlands, usually in litter. In NB, in silver maple swamps in leaf litter, in leaf litter in eastern white cedar swamps and forests, under alders in leaf litter and moss in a marsh, treading vegetation in boggy marsh and a cattail marsh, river margin on moist clay soil among tall grasses, a sea beach in decaying sea wrack, in pitfall traps in a red spruce forest. In NF, from pitfall traps in cut and burned balsam fir, birch, spruce-poplar and riparian forests, in agricultural fields and among vegetation on coastal sand dunes. Elsewhere, in mixed forests and yellow birch forests. Collecting period. V–IX. Collecting method. Pitfall traps, sifting forest litter, treading marsh vegetation.