Oxypoda operta Sj

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 : 108

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

References. Sĵberg 1950. Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2011, 2012, 2018. Majka and Klimaszewski 2010. Brunke et al. 2012.

Distribution. Palearctic, Holarctic or possibly adventive in Canada. Canada: AB, LB, NS, ON, QC, YT. USA: NH.

Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured in birch/fir litter, and by a flight intercept and a Malaise trap. Collected from May to August. In Canada recorded from many forest types and associated with low shrubs on the Forteau Barrens of southern LB; adults in Sphagnum under a spruce tree near a spring and in litter of dwarf Betula sp. ( Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Coos Co.: Mt. Washington, Halfway House , 25.VI.1982, sift birch & fir litter, 2 males ; 18.VI.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift birch & fir litter, 3 males, 3 females. Norton Pool , 3 mi NE East Inlet Dam, 27.V–11.VI.1986, D.S. Chandler, FIT, 1 male . Strafford Co.: 4 mi W Durham , 29.VII–1.VIII.1982, R.M. Reeves, malaise trap, 1 female .