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.
Highlights
A survey of beetles from several localities, mainly in the Athabasca region of Alberta, was conducted in 1997 by J
We discovered one species new to science, Anomognathus athabascensis, the second known species of this genus from North America, as well as one new country and eight new provincial distribution records for species known in other parts of Canada (Table 1)
Extracted genital structures were dehydrated in absolute alcohol, mounted in Canada balsam on celluloid micro-slides, and pinned with the specimens from where they originated
Summary
A survey of beetles from several localities, mainly in the Athabasca region of Alberta, was conducted in 1997 by J. 29 belong to aleocharines and 5 to other families of Staphylinidae Copyright Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada. We discovered one species new to science, Anomognathus athabascensis, the second known species of this genus from North America, as well as one new country and eight new provincial distribution records for species known in other parts of Canada (Table 1). These findings are reported together with an updated checklist of all species from the province (Table 1). The previous lists were published by Bousquet et al (2013), Gouix and Klimaszewski (2007), and Klimaszewski et al (2015)
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