Pasimachus sublaevis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1811)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 275

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

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scientific name

Pasimachus sublaevis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1811)
status

 

Pasimachus sublaevis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1811) View in CoL

Scarites sublaevis Palisot de Beauvois, 1811: 107. Type locality: "Caroline du sud" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably lost.

Pasimachus substriatus Haldeman, 1843c: 313. Type locality: "Long Island [New York]" (original citation). One possible syntype, labeled "[pink disc] / P. substriatus Lec. [handwritten] / sublaevis 15 [handwritten]," in MCZ (collection LeConte). Synonymy established by LeConte (1874a: 268).

Pasimachus assimilis LeConte, 1846a: 148. Type locality: «Georgia» (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 5457]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1853c: 395).

Pasimachus rugosus LeConte, 1846a: 149. Type locality: "Nova Caesarea" [= New Jersey] (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 5456]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1853c: 395).

Pasimachus brevitarsis Casey, 1913: 76. Type locality: "Pass Christian [Harrison County], Mississippi" (original citation). Two syntypes [2 originally cited] in USNM [# 46875]. Synonymy established with doubt by Bänninger (1950: 509).

Pasimachus oblongus Casey, 1913: 77. Type locality: "Southern Pines [Moore County], North Carolina" (original citation). Four syntypes [4 originally cited] in USNM [# 46876]. Synonymy established with doubt, under the name Pasimachus substriatus Haldeman, by Bänninger (1950: 509).

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from Massachusetts (Miliotis 1974: 114) to central Iowa (Purrington and Drake 2005: 256), south to southeastern Mississippi (Casey 1913: 76, as Pasimachus brevitarsis ) and southern Florida including the Keys (Nichols 1988b: Fig. 5-4; Peck and Thomas 1998: 17). The records from South Dakota (Kirk and Balsbaugh 1975: 15, as Scarites substriatus ), “Kansas” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 96), and southeastern Louisiana (Summers 1874a: 79) need confirmation.

Records.

USA: AL, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, MA, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, SC, TN, VA [KS, LA, SD]

Note.

Bänninger (1950: 510) retained Pasimachus substriatus Haldeman as a questionable subspecies of Pasimachus sublaevis . Nichols (1988a: 224-225) treated it as a junior synonym of Pasimachus sublaevis .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Pasimachus

Loc

Pasimachus sublaevis (Palisot de Beauvois, 1811)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Pasimachus brevitarsis

Casey 1913
1913
Loc

Pasimachus oblongus

Casey 1913
1913
Loc

Scarites sublaevis

Palisot de Beauvois 1811
1811