Oxypoda opaca (Gravenhorst)

McLean, John, Klimaszewski, Jan, Li, Agnes & Savard, Karine, 2009, Survey of rove beetles (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) from Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, with new records and description of a new species. Part 1, ZooKeys 22 (22), pp. 5-17 : 12

2. Oxypoda opaca (Gravenhorst)

(For illustrations and details, see Hoebeke 1989 and Klimaszewski et al. 2006).

CANADA. British Columbia: Vancouver, Stanley Park, Vancouver Aquarium, CWH (49°18΄02˝N, 123°07΄04˝W), Funnel trap 1, 29.IV-10.V.2007, J.A. McLean, A. Li, J. Derhousoff ( UBC) 1 male.

Oxypoda opaca is a widespread Palaearctic species previously recorded in North America in the United States from North and South Carolina, New York, and Vermont ( Hoebeke 1989). It was first recorded in Canada from Ontario and Nova Scotia ( Klimaszewski et al. 2006). Th is species is here newly recorded from British Columbia.

Tribe Athetini Casey, 1910

(For literature review and diagnosis, see Klimaszewski and Winchester 2002).