Oxypoda pseudolacustris Klimaszewski

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 : 109

230. Oxypoda pseudolacustris Klimaszewski

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

References. Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2011, 2015 a, 2018.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: AB, MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, QC, SK. USA: ME (NSR), NH.

Collection and Habitat data. In ME found in leaf litter in wet depressions in a forest; in NH taken from leaf litter, leaf litter along stream, leaf litter by spring, birch-fir litter, alder litter, conifer leaf litter, spruce-fir leaf litter, and in rotten wood. Collected from May to October. In Canada recorded from various forests such as mixed forests, mature hardwood forests, red maple forests and swamps, eastern white cedar swamps, fir forests (old-growth and 50-year-old plantations), forested black spruce bogs; and open habitats such as agricultural fields, meadow with Salix shrubs, and litter from lake and river margins. Adults were taken in Sphagnum moss, moss and litter near vernal ponds in forests, Sphagnum in mist zone of waterfall, leaf litter, litter in alpine and subalpine habitats, drift material along lake and river margins, and from lining of deserted beaver lodge ( Klimaszewski et al. 2006, 2011, 2018).

Material. USA, Maine, Penobscot Co.: 4 mi W Orono , 28.V.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter in wet depressions in forest, 1 female . New Hampshire, Carroll Co.: Sandwich Notch , 15.VIII.1980, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter, 1 female, 1 sex? Coos Co.: Mt. Washington, Halfway House , 25.VI.1982, sift birch-fir litter, 8 males, 6 females ; 18.VI.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift birch & fir litter, 3 males, 4 females. Mt. Washington, Auto Road , 2700’, 18.VI.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter along stream, 3 males, 2 females ; 25.VI.1982, sift rotten wood, 1 female; 1.VII.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift birch litter, 4 males; 3000’, 1.VII.1982, sift leaf litter by spring, 1 male, 2 females, 1 sex?; 25.VI.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift litter by stream, 1 male, 1 female. Norton Pool , 2 mi E East Inlet Dam, 7.IX.1984, D.S. Chandler, sift spruce-fir leaf litter, 1 male . Norton Pool , 3 mi NE East Inlet Dam, 9.V.1986, sift conifer leaf litter, 2 males ; 7.IX.1984, D.S. Chandler, sift alder litter, 1 male. 1 mi NE East Inlet Dam , 17.X.1986, D.S. Chandler, sift conifer leaf litter, 1 male . Beaver Brook Falls , 3 mi NE Colebrook, 27.IX.1986, D.S. Chandler, 1 male, 1 female . Strafford Co.: 4 mi SW Durham , 4.V.1969, R.L. Blickle, pitfall, 1 female .