Amara merula (Casey, 1918)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 578

Amara merula (Casey, 1918)

Celia merula Casey, 1918: 267. Type locality: "probably Colorado" (original citation), restricted to "Pass n[ea]r Ouray, Red M[oun]t[ain]s, Colorado" by Hieke (1993: 128). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in USNM [# 47204].

Distribution.

This species ranges from the Kodiak Island and Kenai Peninsula in Alaska south to the Sierra Nevada in east-central California, northern Arizona, and northern New Mexico along the Rocky Mountains (Hieke 2001: 122-124).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC USA: AK, AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY

Note.

This form was regarded as a synonym of Amara discors Kirby by Lindroth (1968: 697) but treated as a valid species by Hieke (1993: 128).