Oxypoda sylvia Casey, 1906

Klimaszewski, Jan, Godin, Benoit, Davies, Anthony, Bourdon, Caroline & Horwood, Denise, 2018, Forty new records of aleocharine beetles, and two new species in the genera Acrotona Thomson and Atheta Thomson, for the province of Manitoba, Canada (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Aleocharinae), Insecta Mundi 2018 (641), pp. 1-33 : 28

Oxypoda sylvia Casey

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

Distribution Canada: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC, SK, YT. USA: AK, ME, NH

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Hecla, 2016-IX-17, 51.7849°N, 96.6152°W, 218 m, mushroom, record sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood (LFC) 1 female.

References Casey 1906, Klimaszewski et al. 2006 [as O. grandipennis ], 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In many forest types, including hardwood, red oak, mixed, mature red spruce, red spruce and birch, old red pine, spruce and balsam fir forests, and old-growth eastern white cedar forests. Adults common in decaying and rotten mushrooms in many of the above forests types. Some, in group of Pholiota mushrooms of trunk of dead Populus ; another under coyote dung on forest road. Collecting period. V–X (most common in September). Collecting method. Sifting mushrooms, forest litter, dung, and moss; some of above material also processed through Berlese funnels, Luminoc® pitfall-light traps, unbaited pitfall traps.