Carabus sylvosus Say, 1823

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 193-194

Carabus sylvosus Say, 1823

Carabus sylvosus Say, 1823a: 75. Type locality: North America (inferred from title of the book), restricted to "Asheville [Buncombe County], N[orth] C[arolina]" by Lindroth (1961a: 41). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 330), in MHNP.

Carabus lherminieri Dejean, 1826: 152. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 12; Toulgoët 1975: 20). Synonymy established by LeConte (1863b: 3), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 12). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Félix Louis L’Herminier [1779-1833], a French pharmacist and naturalist who lived for over 30 years in Guadeloupe. L’Herminier also spent times in South Carolina where he gathered insects; some of them were sent to Dejean.

Distribution.

This species ranges from “Maine” (Larochelle and Larivière 1990a: 27) to northern Minnesota (Gandhi et al. 2005: 923), north to north-central Ontario (Spires 1985: 79), south to “Texas” (Van Dyke 1945a: 116, as Carabus sylvosus lherminieri ) and central Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 16). The record from “Utah” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 77) is in error.

Records.

CAN: ON, QC USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV