Oxypoda brachyptera (Stephens)

Klimaszewski, Jan, Chandler, Donald S., Davies, Anthony & Bourdon, Caroline, 2023, Aleocharine rove beetles of New Hampshire, USA: new taxa and new records (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae), Zootaxa 5364 (1), pp. 1-141 : 104

216. Oxypoda brachyptera (Stephens) †

(Illustrations in Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2018), Table 1

References. Stephens 1832. Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2011, 2016 a, 2018. Majka and Klimaszewski 2010.

Distribution. Palearctic, adventive in Canada. Canada: NB, NF, NS, NU, ON, QC. USA (NCR): NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. Collected from May to July in NH by pitfall traps; no habitat data associated with the NH specimens. In Canada recorded in clearcut of a yellow birch dominated forest and from agricultural fields; collected from forest leaf litter, and in litter in lightly scarified clearcut ( Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Strafford Co.: 4 mi SW Durham , 4.V.1969, 1 female; 12.VII.1969, 1 male; 8.VII.1969, 1 female; 11.VI.1969, R.L. Blickle , pitfall, 1 female .