Scaphinotus snowi roeschkei Van Dyke, 1907

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 158

Scaphinotus snowi roeschkei Van Dyke, 1907

Scaphinotus roeschkei Van Dyke [in Roeschke], 1907a: 135. Type locality: «Humphrey’s Peak [Coconino County], Arizonas in 9500' Höhe» (original citation). Holotype (♂) in ZMUA (Boer 2002: 100). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Hans Friedrich Roeschke [1867-1934], a German physician by profession and carabidologist by avocation. Roeschke left his carabid collection (mostly members of the subfamily Carabinae ) to the German neurologist, brain researcher, and entomologist Oskar Vogt [1870-1959]. Vogt’s collection was acquired by the Zoölogisch Museum of Amsterdam.

Distribution.

This subspecies is restricted to high mountains in Coconino County, northern Arizona (Van Dyke 1938: 103).

Records.

USA: AZ

Note.

Van Dyke (1938: 102) treated this form as a species but Ball (1966c: 693) retained it as a subspecies of Scaphinotus snowi .