Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Staphylinidae

Atheta (Microdota) riparia Klimaszewski & Godin

(for details and body image, see Klimaszewski et al. 2012)

Distribution.

Natural history.

One SK male was captured in bracket/gilled fungi in aspen woodland in June, and the other from spruce-aspen woodland in September. In YT, two males were captured by sifting litter in mixed aspen and white spruce forest in September, and one female was found on a mushroom in August (Klimaszewski et al. 2012).