Schistoglossa (Boreomorpha) sphagnorum Klimaszewski & Webster 2009

Description. Body length 2.3–2.5 mm, width 0.4–0.5 mm, approximately uniformly dark brown with slightly darker head and abdomen, and paler legs and mouthparts (Fig. 6); integument with weak microsculpture, sculpticells irregularly hexagonal, pubescence short, except slightly longer on head and abdomen, yellowish-brown in artificial light, moderately dense. Head slightly elongate, rounded posteriorly, carinate basally, tempora as long as approximately three times maximal diameter of eye (Fig. 6); antennae robust and all articles slightly to strongly elongate (Fig. 6); pronotum transverse, broadly rounded laterally and posteriorly, broadest in apical half, pubescence directed anteriorly on apical third of the midline and laterally elsewhere (Fig. 6); elytra short, as long as pronotum, transverse, hind margin nearly straight, pubescence directed obliquely posteriad (Fig. 6); abdomen parallel-sided, four basal tergites deeply impressed basally (Fig. 6). Male. Median lobe of the aedeagus broad and flattened (Fig. 53), venter of tubus sinuate and apex narrow (Fig. 54), apical sclerites of internal sac lunar-shaped in lateral view (Fig. 54), and basal sclerites narrowly elongate (Fig. 53); paramere as illustrated (Fig. 52); tergite 8 transverse and entire, apical margin without or with small emargination (Fig. 55); sternite 8 elongate and rounded posteriorly, antecostal suture sinuate and pointed medially (Fig. 56). Female. Spermatheca S-shaped with capsule narrowly spherical, bearing internal ribbings and without apical invagination, stem moderately narrow and sinuate (Fig. 57). Tergite and sternite 8 as illustrated (Figs 58, 59).

Geographic distribution (Map 5). Known only from New Brunswick, but probably more broadly distributed in northern Canada.