Harpalus rufipes (DeGeer, 1774)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 691

Harpalus rufipes (DeGeer, 1774)

Carabus rufipes DeGeer, 1774: 96. Type locality not stated; «Sweden» selected by Lindroth (1968: 759). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1968: 759), in NRSS.

Carabus ruficornis Fabricius, 1775: 241 [primary homonym of Carabus ruficornis DeGeer, 1774]. Type locality: «Europa» (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1968: 759), in ZMUC. Synonymy established by Schönherr (1806: 182).

Distribution.

This adventive species is found from Newfoundland (Larson and Langor 1982: 593) to near Montreal, Quebec (Mercado Cárdenas and Buddle 2007: 140), south to Connecticut (Krinsky and Oliver 2001: 210) and Rhode Island (Zhang et al. 1994: 69). The record from Wayne County, New York (Hajek et al. 2007) is in error (see Hajek et al. 2009: 913). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found on Prince Edward Island in 1937 (Brown 1950b: 199).

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: NB, NF, NS (CBI), PE, QC USA: CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT - Adventive