Ardistomis schaumii LeConte, 1857

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 292

Ardistomis schaumii LeConte, 1857

Ardistomis schaumii LeConte, 1857b: 80. Type locality: «Louisiana» (original citation), restricted to "Alexandria, Rapides Parish" by Bousquet (2006c: 18). Lectotype, designated by Bousquet (2006c: 12), in MCZ [# 5486]. Etymology. The specific name honors Hermann Rudolphe Schaum [1819-1865], a German physician who eventually turned entomologist and worked primarily on Coleoptera . Schaum made a trip to eastern United States from 1847 to 1849 and stayed for some time with LeConte. In 1857 he became professor at the Royal University in Berlin.

Distribution.

This species is found from South Carolina (Ciegler 2000: 43) to southern Florida, west to the Rio Grande in south-central Texas, north along the Mississippi River drainage to southern Illinois [see Bousquet 2006c: Fig. 34].

Records.

USA: AL, AR, FL, GA, IL, LA, MS, OK, SC, TN, TX, VA