Abstract
First record of the genus Schistoglossa Kraatz from Canada with descriptions of seven new species (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae)
Highlights
Schistoglossa Kraatz (1856) is a Holarctic genus with 19 valid species (Ashe 2001; Smetana 2004) including seven new species described
Ten species are recorded from the Palaearctic region (Smetana 2004) and five nominal species have been recorded from the Nearctic region (Seevers 1978; Moore and Legner 1975)
The genus Schistoglossa was first reported from the Palaearctic region by Bernhauer (1909) who described two species: S. approximata and S. flavicornis [originally as Atheta]
Summary
Schistoglossa Kraatz (1856) is a Holarctic genus with 19 valid species (Ashe 2001; Smetana 2004) including seven new species described . The Nearctic species included one unconfirmed record of Palaearctic S. viduata (Erichson) (Moore and Legner 1975; Seevers 1978), two doubtful records of undescribed, but cited as described species, S. aubeiodes Brundin and S. holmbergi Brundin (Seevers 1978; Campbell and Davies 1991), and one valid species, S. approximata Bernhauer, with its synonym S. flavicornis Bernhauer (Gusarov 2003). Brundin (1943) said the genus Schistoglossa was represented in the Nearctic region by two new species in Bernhauer’s collection: one from Alaska, Sitkha, called “aubei” that was related to curtipennis [referred to as holmbergi in Seevers /1978/], and one from Massachusetts, which was close to “aubéi” [referred to as aubeiodes in Seevers /1978/]. We assume that Seevers saw the specimens Brundin was referring to in Bernhauer’s collection, and did not mean “described” (in the formal taxonomic sense), and “mentioned” the two species in his paper, and cited the names as they were labelled in Bernhauer’s collection
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