Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid, 1812)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 700

Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid, 1812)

Carabus rubripes Duftschmid, 1812: 77. Type locality: "um Linz [Austria]" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably lost.

Harpalus rufipes Motschulsky, 1844: 212 [secondary homonym of Harpalus rufipes (DeGeer, 1774)]. Type locality: "Alpes du Caucase" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Kataev (1989: 200), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Kataev (1989: 199).

Harpalus hyperboreus Motschulsky, 1844: 214. Type locality: "bords du fleuve Selenga à Tchertovkino [Siberia, Russia]" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Kataev (1989: 200), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Kataev (1989: 199).

Distribution.

This Palaearctic species is adventive in North America where it is known from Nova Scotia (Majka et al. 2006: 606) and Prince Edward Island (Majka et al. 2008: 132) to eastern Ontario (near Reids Mills, CNC), including southern Quebec (Chantal 1994: 29), south to eastern Pennsylvania (Davidson et al. 2011: 517). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in New Hampshire in 1981 (Bell and Davidson 1987: 56).

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, ON, PE, QC USA: CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, PA, RI, VT - Adventive