Oligota polyporicola Klimaszewski and Webster

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 : 91

184. Oligota polyporicola Klimaszewski and Webster

(Illustrations in Webster et al. 2016, Klimaszewski et al. 2018), Table 1

References. Webster et al. 2016. Klimaszewski et al. 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: NB. USA (NCR): NH (NSR).

Collection and Habitat data. In NH captured by a green funnel trap with hexane-EtOH bait. In Canada found in fleshy polypore (bracket) fungi on dead standing American beeches, a large fallen basswood, a Populus log, on a stump in a hardwood forest, and in a mixed forest and a mature red spruce and red maple forest. Adults were found within the spore channels of the polypore fungi ( Webster et al. 2016) .

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Carroll Co.: Bartlett Experimental Forest, 44.07414, -71.29091, 4.VI.2020, K.J. Dodds, ex. green funnel, hex. and EtOH, 1, sex? ( MFDC). Ossipee Lake Nat. Area , 43.77964, -71.10887, 14.VI.2021, J. Weimer, ex. funnel, 1 male .