Lebia solea Hentz, 1830

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 825

Lebia solea Hentz, 1830

Lebia solea Hentz, 1830: 256. Type locality: «Massachusetts» (original citation), herein restricted to Framingham, Middlesex County (see Madge 1967: 188). Syntype(s) lost.

Lebia scapularis Dejean, 1831: 377. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 23). Synonymy established by LeConte (1859c: 31), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 23).

Lebia conjungens LeConte, 1846b: 194. Type locality: "NovEboraci [= New York]" (original citation). Two syntypes in MCZ [# 5809]. Synonymy established, under the name Lebia scapularis Dejean, by Horn (1872a: 138). Note. Madge (1967: 190) listed this name in synonymy with Lebia vittata Fabricius. Horn (1872a: 138) referred it to this species and the original description clearly suggests that his interpretation is correct. The specimen labeled as type in MCZ is not a syntype since it bears the label “N.J.”

Lebia flavolineata Motschulsky, 1864: 227. Type locality: «Am[érique] bor[ éale]» (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Bousquet (1997b: 339), in ZMMU. Synonymy established with doubt by Horn (1872a: 142), confirmed by Bousquet (1997b: 339).

Lebia scapularis var. limbigera Chaudoir, 1871b: 54. Type locality: «Louisiane» (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] probably in MHNP. New synonymy. Note. This name has been forgotten in the literature. The elytral color of the sole specimen seen by Chaudoir (1871b: 54), which was the reason for proposing the new taxon, falls within the variability of Lebia solea as expressed by Madge (1967: 187).

Lebia websteri Casey, 1920: 260. Type locality: «Indiana» (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 144), in USNM [# 47664]. Synonymy established by Madge (1967: 187). Etymology. The specific name honors Francis Marion Webster [1849-1916], a self-made entomologist who worked as a special field agent to the United States Department of Agriculture under Charles Valentine Riley before joining the U.S. Bureau of Entomology.

Distribution.

This species is found east of the Rocky Mountains from southern Nova Scotia to southwestern Saskatchewan, south to southeastern Texas along the Rio Grande and southern Florida [see Madge 1967: Fig. 131]; also recorded from Cuba (Darlington 1934: 113) and “Mexico” (Lindroth 1969a: 1031). The record from southwestern New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 160, as Lebia scapularis ) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: MB, NS, ON, QC, SK USA: AL, AR, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV [NM] - Cuba, Mexico