Carabus granulatus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 187

Carabus granulatus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758

Carabus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758: 413. Type locality not stated; «Suecia» selected by Lindroth (1957b: 339). Four possible syntypes, only one belonging to the present species, in LSL (Lindroth 1957b: 331).

Carabus granulatus hibernicus Lindroth, 1956a: 7. Type locality: "Killarney, Kerry Co[unty], Ireland" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in BMNH. Synonymy established by Deuve (1994a: 90).

Distribution.

This European subspecies is adventive in North America where it is known from Newfoundland (Larson and Langor 1982: 592) to southeastern Manitoba (Roughley et al. 2010: 230; CMNH), and from east-central Minnesota (Gandhi et al. 2011: 673), Massachusetts (Van Dyke 1945a: 129), and Connecticut (Middlesex County, William L. Krinsky pers. comm. 2012) in the east, and from western British Columbia (Lindroth 1961a: 37), including the Queen Charlotte Islands (Kavanaugh 2010: 385), western Washington (Hatch 1953: 51), and Edmonton, Alberta (UASM), in the west. The first inventoried specimen collected in the east was found in New Brunswick in 1890 (Lindroth 1961a: 37) and in the west in Seattle, Washington, in 1924 (Hatch 1933c: 117).

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC (QCI, VCI), MB, NB, NF, NS, ON, PE, QC USA: CT, MA, MN, WA - Adventive