A new species of Anomognathus and new Canadian and provincial records of aleocharine rove beetles from Alberta, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

Jan Klimaszewski; David W Langor; H E James Hammond; Caroline Bourdon

doi:10.3897/zookeys.581.8014

A new species of Anomognathus and new Canadian and provincial records of aleocharine rove beetles from Alberta, Canada (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)

Zookeys. 2016 Apr 14:(581):141-64. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.581.8014. eCollection 2016.

Authors

Jan Klimaszewski¹, David W Langor², H E James Hammond², Caroline Bourdon¹

Affiliations

¹ Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Laurentian Forestry Centre, 1055 du P.E.P.S., P.O. Box 10380, Stn. Sainte-Foy, Québec, Quebec, Canada G1V 4C7.
² Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service, Northern Forestry Centre, 5320-122 Street, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6H 3S5.

Abstract

A new species, Anomognathus athabascensis Klimaszewski, Hammond & Langor, sp. n., and nine new provincial records including one new country record of aleocharine beetles are presented for the province of Alberta. Diagnostics, images of habitus and genital structures, distribution, natural history information and new locality data are provided for the newly recorded species. A checklist for all recorded aleocharines from Alberta is updated.

Keywords: Alberta; Aleocharinae; Canada; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; new provincial records; new species; rove beetles.