Bembidion scudderi LeConte, 1878

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 408-409

Bembidion scudderi LeConte, 1878

Bembidium scudderi LeConte, 1878a: 451. Type locality: "Salt Lake Valley (4,300 feet) [Salt Lake County, Utah]" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in MCZ [# 5520]. Etymology. The specific name honors the celebrated American paleontologist, entomologist, and nomenclatorist Samuel Hubbard Scudder [1837-1911] who worked primarily on Orthoptera and Lepidoptera at Harvard University.

Bembidion spissicorne Casey, 1924: 40. Type locality: "Bellevue (3400 ft.) [Weber County], Utah" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 120), in USNM [# 36990]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1963b: 351).

Distribution.

This species is found from southern Manitoba to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia (Lindroth 1963b: 352), south to Kern County in southern California (Fall 1901a: 43), northern Utah (LeConte 1878a: 451; Casey, 1924: 40, as Bembidion spissicorne ; Box Elder and Utah Counties, MCZ), and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming (MCZ). The record from “Colorado” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 140) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, MB, SK USA: CA, MT, ND, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY [CO]