Gyrophaena involuta (lat.) - a species of staphylinids of the genus Gyrophaena from the tribe Homalotini (subfamily Aleocharinae ). North America [2] [3] .
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Distribution
Nearctic: Canada , USA [1] [4] .
Description
Small short-winged bugs. Body length from 1.8 to 2.0 mm, subparallel form. Pronotum is 1.3 times wider than its length. Coloring tan. Found in August in mixed and deciduous forests. Larvae and adult bugs feed on mushrooms (obligate mycophages), in which they live, feed and breed, lay eggs. Spores, basidia, and hyphae of the mycelium eat [1] . The head is wide, strongly transverse. The eyes are relatively large, protruding (the head is narrowed behind the eyes). The tongue is long and narrow. Labial palps 2-segmented. Pronotum already elytra. The hind tarsus is 5-segmented, and the tarsus of the anterior and middle ones consists of 4 segments (tarsus formula: 4-5-5) [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Klimaszewski, J .; Webster, RP; Savard, K. 2009: Review of the rove beetle species of the subtribe Gyrophaenina Kraatz (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from New Brunswick, Canada: new species, provincial records and bionomic information. In: Majka, CG; Klimaszewski, J. (eds) Biodiversity, biosystematics, and ecology of Canadian Coleoptera II. ZooKeys 22: 81-170. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys.22.219
- ↑ Casey TL (1906). Observations of the staphylinid groups Aleocharinae and Xantholinini, chiefly of America. Transactions of the Academy of Sciences of St. Louis 16: 125-435.
- ↑ Casey TL (1911). New American species of Aleocharinae and Myllaeninae. Memoirs on the Coleoptera 2. Th e New Era Printing Company, Lancaster, PA, 245pp.
- ↑ Seevers, CH Revision of the North American and European Staphylinid Beetles of the Subtribe Gyrophaenae (Aleocharinae, Bolitocharini) // Fieldiana. - 1951. - 32, N 10. - P. 656–762.
- ↑ Key to insects of the European part of the USSR. T. II. Coleoptera and fan-winged. / under total. ed. Corr. G. Ya. Bey-Bienko . - M. - L .: "Science", 1965. - S. 116, 120, 152. - 668 p. - (Keys to the fauna of the USSR, published by the Zoological Institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR ; issue 89.). - 5700 copies.
Literature
- Ashe, JS Generic revision of the subtribe Gyrophaenina (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae) with a review of the described subgenera and major features of evolution // Quaestiones entomologicae. - 1984. - 20, N 3. - P. 129—349.
- Seevers, Charles H. 1978. A generic and tribal revision of the North American Aleocharinae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Fieldiana (Zoology), vol. 71. vi + 1-289. ISSN: 0015-0754