Oxypoda hiemalis Casey, 1911

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 : 27

Oxypoda hiemalis Casey

Distribution

Origin Nearctic

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

New provincial Canada: Manitoba: Moose Lake, 2016-IX-19, 49.2018°N, 95.3423°W, 353 m,

records mushroom, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male, 4 females ; same locality data ( LFC) 1 male, 3 females ; Souris River , 2016-IX-9, 49.5022°N, 99.9915°W ,

402 m, river bank, oak litter, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC) 1 male, 1 female ; same locality data ( LFC) 1 male, 1 female ; Katherine Lake , 2016-IX-14, 50.6603°N, 99.8947°W, 652 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( BGC)

1 male; Adam Lake , 2016-IX-11, 49.0508°N, 100.0666°W, 689 m, mushrooms, sifting, B. Godin & D. Horwood ( LFC) 1 female .

References Casey 1911, Klimaszewski et al. 2018

Collection and habitat data. Habitat (outside of the study area). In hardwood (silver maple, sugar maple, red oak, birch, alder) and mixed forests with some in fir, pine forests, mature spruce and eastern white cedar forest, and a tamarack bog margin. Adults in leaf litter, moss, litter and Sphagnum near small body of water, in moist leaves on vernal pond margins, in litter at base of tree in Carex marsh, in lining of deserted beaver lodge, in moist grass litter on abandoned beaver pond margin, Microtus nests, marmot ( Marmota sp. ) burrows, Sphagnum moss, litter on barren, litter around raspberry, in frass in tree holes of birch and maple, and in leaf litter on river margin. One individual in lichen on tree trunk. Collecting period. III-X. Collecting method. Sifting various kinds of litter, pitfall traps, Luminoc® pitfall-light traps, Malaise traps.