Pterostichus brevicornis brevicornis (Kirby, 1837)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 544-545

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scientific name

Pterostichus brevicornis brevicornis (Kirby, 1837)
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Pterostichus brevicornis brevicornis (Kirby, 1837)

Argutor brevicornis Kirby, 1837: 31. Type locality: "Lat. 65° [= apparently region of Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories]" (original citation), restricted to "Good Hope, N[orth]W[est] T[erritories]" by Ball (1966a: 105). Lectotype (♂), designated by Ball (1966a: 105), in BMNH.

Feronia subtilis R.F. Sahlberg, 1844: 35. Type locality: circa Okhotsk, Khabarovsk Kray, Siberia, Russia (inferred from introduction and title of the paper). Lectotype [as holotype] (♀), designated by Ball (1966a: 105), in ZMH. Synonymy established by Ball (1966a: 105).

Cryobius fastidiosus Mannerheim, 1853: 131. Type locality: "ad sinum Woskresenk [= Resurrection Bay] peninsulae Kenai [Alaska]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Silfverberg (1987: 16), in ZMH. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1954b: 131).

Pseudocryobius quinquepunctatus Motschulsky, 1860: 93. Type locality: "Kamtschatka [Russia]" (original citation). One syntype in ZMMU (Keleinikova 1976: 213). Synonymy established by Ball (1966a: 105).

Feronia fragilis Mäklin, 1878: 20. Type locality: "Sopotschnaja Korga (71°40' n. lat.) [Siberia, Russia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Ball (1966a: 105). Note. The lectotype selected by Ball (1966a: 105), apparently in ZMH though not listed in Silfverberg’s (1987) type list, is labeled “Waigatsch” (= Vaygach Island in Siberia) and is probably not a syntype.

Feronia infima Mäklin, 1878: 20 [primary homonym of Feronia infima Chaudoir, 1868]. Type locality: "Jenisej, nemligen åtminstone från Mesenkin åt söder ända nedom 61 breddgraden [Russia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in NRSS). Synonymy established, under the name Pterostichus fastidiosus (Mannerheim), by Poppius (1906b: 192), confirmed by Lindroth (1954b: 132).

Feronia arctica J.R. Sahlberg, 1880: 31. Replacement name for Feronia infima Mäklin, 1878.

Feronia epipleuralis J.R. Sahlberg, 1885b: 49. Type locality: Port Clarence, Alaska (inferred from title of the paper). Syntype(s) [3 originally cited] in ZMH. Synonymy established, under the name Pterostichus fastidiosus (Mannerheim), by Poppius (1906b: 192), confirmed by Ball (1966a: 105).

Platysma aquilonium Tschitschérine, 1904: 125. Type locality: "insula Kolgujev: Bugrino-Stanovishtshe [in Barents Sea, Russia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) [2 ♂ originally cited] probably in ZILR. Synonymy established, under the name Pterostichus fastidiosus (Mannerheim), by Poppius (1906b: 192).

Cryobius carbo Poppius, 1906b: 182. Type locality not stated. Lectotype (♀), designated by Ball (1966a: 105), in ZMH. Synonymy established by Ball (1966a: 105).

Cryobius fastidiosus minusculus Poppius, 1906b: 199. Type locality: "Bulkur, Unterste Lena [Yakutia, Siberia, Russia]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Ball (1966a: 105), in ZMH. Synonymy established by Ball (1966a: 105).

Cryobius delicatus Casey, 1918: 375. Type locality: "S[ain]t Paul Island, Alaska" (original citation). Lectotype [as holotype] (♂), designated by Ball (1966a: 89), in USNM [# 47079]. New synonymy. Note. Ball (1966a) retained this name for a subspecies of Pterostichus brevicornis endemic to the Bering Sea Islands but, as pointed out by himself (Ball 1966a: 121) and Lindroth (1966: 523), there are no constant structural character states between the two forms and intermediate specimens are known. Based on these facts, I prefer not to retain this form as a valid subspecies.

Distribution.

This Holarctic subspecies ranges from the Kola Peninsula in northern European Russia eastwards to Newfoundland (Ball 1966a: 119); the species is represented by isolated populations in the Gaspé Peninsula, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Michigan (Ball 1966a: 119-121), northeastern Minnesota (Cook County, CNC), and northern Wyoming (Big Horn County, FFPC) [see Ball and Currie 1997: Fig. 4]. The record from northern Colorado (Armin 1963: 217) is likely in error. Fossil remnants, older than 33,000 years B.P., have been unearthed in southwestern Ontario (Warner et al. 1988: 37); others from a Plio-Pleistocene sequence have been found in northwestern Greenland ( Böcher 1995: 28).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NF, NT, NU, ON, QC, YT USA: AK, ME, MI, MN, NH, NY, VT, WY - Holarctic

Note.

The subspecies Pterostichus brevicornis yasudai Morita is endemic to the island of Hokkaidō, Japan.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Pterostichus

Loc

Pterostichus brevicornis brevicornis (Kirby, 1837)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Cryobius carbo

Poppius 1906
1906
Loc

Platysma aquilonium

Tschitscherine in Semenov 1904
1904
Loc

Feronia epipleuralis

J. Sahlberg 1885
1885
Loc

Feronia arctica

J. Sahlberg 1880
1880
Loc

Pseudocryobius quinquepunctatus

Motschulsky 1860
1860
Loc

Cryobius fastidiosus

Mannerheim 1853
1853
Loc

Feronia subtilis

R. F. Sahlberg 1844
1844
Loc

Argutor brevicornis

Kirby 1837
1837