Oxypoda nigriceps Casey, 1893

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 : 107

225. Oxypoda nigriceps Casey

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

References. Casey 1893. Klimaszewski et al. 2005a, 2006, 2018. Majka and Sikes 2009.

Distribution. Nearctic. Canada: NB, NS. USA: NH (NSR), RI, VA.

Collection and Habitat data. The NH specimens were found in sod, litter by marsh, litter along swamp margin, and in an old beaver pond area. Collected from April to October. In Canada recorded from various forest types and wetlands, usually in leaf litter. In mature red spruce and eastern white cedar forest in moss and litter near small brook, in red spruce dominated forest from pitfall traps, in grass and leaf litter in alder swamp, margin of beaver pond in leaf litter, small sedge marsh in moist grass litter, red oak forest from Lindgren funnel trap, and sifted from decaying mushrooms ( Klimaszewski et al. 2005a, 2006, 2018).

Material. USA, New Hampshire, Carroll Co.: Sandwich Notch , 15.VIII.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift leaf litter, 1 female . Coos Co.: Second College Grant, nr. Alder Brook Rd. , 44.891242, -71.126214, 31.VII.2021, C. Ziadeh, pitfall trap S.2.89, 1 male . Merrimack Co, Concord Airport, 1 mi E Concord, DZ.4, pine-oak barrens, 4.V.2006, D.S. Chandler, sift grass & leaf litter by pond, 1 male . Strafford Co.: 1 mi SW Durham , 21.IV.1982, sift litter by marsh, D.S. Chandler, 1 female . 1 mi NW Durham , 287’, 2.X.2003, G.D. Whitmore, ZOOL 745, sift forest leaf litter, 1 male ; 16.V.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift litter along swamp margin, 2 females; 21.IV.1982, D.S. Chandler, sift litter by marsh, 1 female. College Woods, Durham , 4.X.2007, B.W. Sanford, berlese meadow sod, 1 male . Thompson Farm, 3.5 km SW Durham , N43.11260°, W70.94755°, 17m, 8.IX.2005, berlese sod, S.J. Watkins, 1 female ; N43.11223°, W70.94203°, 14m, 29.IX–13.X.2005, FITrap, beaver pond area, 1 female.