Laemostenus terricola terricola (Herbst, 1784)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 730

Laemostenus terricola terricola (Herbst, 1784)

Carabus terricola Herbst, 1784: 140. Type locality: "Berlin [Germany]" (original citation). Syntype(s) in ZMHB (Casale 1988: 781).

Carabus inaequalis Panzer, 1795: 60. Type locality: Germany (inferred from title of the book). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in ZMHB). Synonymy established, under the name Sphodrus subcyaneus (Illiger), by Sturm (1824: 152).

Carabus subcyaneus Illiger, 1801: 57. Type locality: Prussia, Germany (inferred from title of Illiger’s 1798 book). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Schönherr (1806: 183). Note. This name was proposed for Carabus terricola Herbst, 1784 sensu Illiger (1798: 184).

Harpalus episcopus Drapiez, 1819: 130. Type locality: "Mons, en Hainaut [Belgium]" (original citation). One possible syntype in MHNP (see Casale 1988: 781). Synonymy established by Casale (1988: 781).

Sphodrus reichenbachi Schaufuss, 1861: 15. Type locality: "prov[incia] Alaba [= Álava], Hispan[ia] occ[identalis]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Casale (1988: 782), in ZMHB. Synonymy established by Casale (1988: 782).

Distribution.

This European subspecies is adventive in North America where it is known from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1966: 550; Larson and Langor 1982: 593) and the Maritimes (Lindroth 1966: 550) to the Saint Lawrence Estuary (Larochelle 1975: 98), from three specimens collected in 2005 and 2008 in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts (Davidson et al. 2011: 518), and from one specimen collected in 1980 in southeastern British Columbia (Bousquet 1987a: 125). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Nova Scotia prior to 1894 (Bousquet 1992a: 507).

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: BC, NB, NF, NS, PE, QC USA: MA - Adventive

Note.

The subspecies Laemostenus terricola punctatus Dejean is restricted to eastern Europe.