Nomius pygmaeus (Dejean, 1831)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 471

Nomius pygmaeus (Dejean, 1831)

Morio pygmaeus Dejean, 1831: 512. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to "Minaki, n[orth]w[est] of Kenora, Ont[ario]" by Lindroth (1961a: 175). Holotype [by monotypy] in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 13).

Nomius graecus Laporte, 1835: 145. Type locality: «Grèce» (original citation). Syntype(s) in MHNP (collection Oberthür via James Thomson). Synonymy established by Schaum (1857b: lxxviii).

Distribution.

The range of this species, also known as the "stinking Beetle", extends from southern Quebec, as far north as Mistassini (Larochelle 1975: 95), to the Queen Charlotte and Vancouver Islands (Lindroth 1961a: 175), south at least to central California (Sequoia National Park, CAS), southern Arizona (Ober and Maddison 2008: 24; Cochise County, CNC), “Oklahoma” (David R. Maddison pers. comm. 2008), Alabama (LeConte 1846b: 209), northern Georgia (Fattig 1949: 16), and southern South Carolina (Ciegler 2000: 56); one specimen was collected in the highlands of Chiapas in Mexico (Reichardt 1977: 394). In the Old World, this species has been found in southern Europe, Cyprus (Fauvel 1889b: 96), Morocco, and Iran (Talysh) ( Hůrka 2003: 346).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC (QCI, VCI), MB, ON, QC, SK USA: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, DE, GA, ID, IL, IN, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, UT, WA, WI, WV - Mexico