Sphaeroderus bicarinatus (LeConte, 1853)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 153

Sphaeroderus bicarinatus (LeConte, 1853)

Cychrus bicarinatus LeConte, 1853c: 399. Type locality: "Habersham Co[unty], Georgia" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in MCZ [# 616].

Sphaeroderus multicarinatus Darlington, 1932: 151. Type locality: "Newfound Gap (near 5,200 feet), Smoky Mountains, on the North Carolina-Tennessee state line" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in MCZ [# 16432]. Synonymy established by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 78) based on Barr (1974a) unpublished manuscript.

Distribution.

This species is found along the southern parts of the Appalachians from North Carolina and Tennessee (Darlington 1932: 152) to northern Alabama ( Löding 1945: 11) and northeastern Georgia (LeConte 1853c: 399; Leng 1910: 73).

Records.

USA: AL, GA, NC, SC, TN

Note.

Roeschke (1907a: 263) and Lindroth (1961a: 29) regarded this form as a subspecies of Sphaeroderus stenostomus (Weber).