Amerizus wingatei (Bland, 1864)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 344

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Amerizus wingatei (Bland, 1864)
status

 

Amerizus wingatei (Bland, 1864)

Bembidium wingatei Bland, 1864: 319. Type locality: "near Bellefonte [Centre County], Pennsylvania" (original citation). One syntype in ANSP [# 1034]. Etymology. The specific name was proposed for John D. Wingate, a dentist in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania who had an interest in natural history. Wingate presented over 1,500 beetles to the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia in 1861.

Distribution.

This eastern species occurs from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 78, as Bembidium oblongulum ) to northern Minnesota (Petrice et al. 2002: 9; Gandhi et al. 2005: 925), south to Tennessee (Carter County, CMNH) and North Carolina (Lindroth 1963b: 406; Mitchell and Yancey Counties, CMNH) along the Appalachian Mountains.

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: LB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), ON, PE, QC USA: IL, IN, KY, MA, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NY, OH, PA, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV

Note.

This species has long been confused with Amerizus oblongulus Mannerheim, under that name, following Horn (1875: 131).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Amerizus

Loc

Amerizus wingatei (Bland, 1864)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Bembidium wingatei

Bland 1864
1864