Ocyusa asperula Casey

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 : 103

213. Ocyusa asperula Casey

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

References. Casey 1893. Webster et al. 2009. Klimaszewski et al. 2014, 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: NB. USA: IA, MA, ME (NSR), RI.

Collection and Habitat data. The ME specimens were found in May in Sphagnum . In Canada recorded in association with various kinds of wetlands. Found in water-saturated green Sphagnum and Carex in a black spruce bog, in moss and leaf litter in vernal pools in eastern white cedar swamps, in red maple ( Acer rubrum L.) swamps with eastern white-cedar, in grass and litter at bases of alders in a marsh, among sedges and cattails in a boggy marsh, in Carex hummocks in a Carex marsh, in alder swamps, and at lakeshores on moist soil/gravel among the sedges ( Webster et al. 2009, Klimaszewski et al. 2014).

Material. USA, Maine, York Co.: West Lebanon, 1.V.1992, D.W. Barry, berlese Sphagnum , 2 females, 1 sex ?

Comments. Taken at a ME site 4 km from the NH border, and most likely occurs in NH.