Syntomus americanus (Dejean, 1831)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 811

Syntomus americanus (Dejean, 1831)

Dromius americanus Dejean, 1831: 361. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to "Rumney [Grafton County], N[ew] H[ampshire]" by Lindroth (1969a: 1056). Holotype [by monotypy] in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 24).

Metabletus borealis Zimmermann [in LeConte], 1869b: 243. Type locality: "Lake Superior" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably lost (Lindroth 1969a: 1056). Synonymy established by Horn (1882: 161).

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 130) to east-central Alaska (Lindroth 1969a: 1056), south to the Sierra Nevada in California (Dajoz 2007: 16), southeastern Arizona (Graham and Greenlee Counties, UASM), central New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 160), south-central South Dakota (Kirk and Balsbaugh 1975: 38), central Illinois (Wolcott 1895: 309), and western North Carolina (Yancey County, USNM) along the Appalachians. The records from “Nebraska” and “Texas” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 274) need confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC (VCI), LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, ND, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, TN, UT, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY [NE, TX]