Elaphrus clairvillei Kirby, 1837

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 264-265

Elaphrus clairvillei Kirby, 1837

Elaphrus clairvillei Kirby, 1837: 61 (as clairvillii). Type locality: "from New York to Cumberland-house" (original citation), restricted to "Nipigon, Ont[ario]" by Lindroth (1961a: 112). Holotype [by monotypy] in BMNH (Lindroth 1953b: 176). Etymology. The specific name honors the Swiss naturalist Joseph Phillippe de Clairville [1742-1830]. Born in France, Clairville studied medicine and natural history at Montpellier and in 1782 moved to Winterthur, near Zurich. During the French occupation he was forced to leave Switzerland and fled to Erlangen, Germany. His entomological interests were mainly in Odonata, Diptera , and Coleoptera and his collection of beetles is now at the Natural History Museum in Basel. Note. The incorrect subsequent spelling clairvillei is in prevailing usage and attributed to the publication of the original spelling; therefore it is deemed to be the correct original spelling (ICZN 1999: Article 33.3.1).

Elaphrus politus LeConte, 1850: 209. Type locality: "Maple Island [Ontario]" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in MCZ [# 171]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1870: 396), confirmed by Goulet (1983: 271).

Elaphrus clairvillei frosti Hippisley, 1922: 64. Type locality: "some three and one-half miles southwest of Terrace as the crow flies, or six miles by the road [British Columbia]" (original citation). Holotype probably in MCZ (collection Frost). Synonymy established by Lindroth (1961a: 112).

Elaphrus torreyensis Tanner, 1942: 137. Type locality: "Torrey, Wayne County, Utah" (original citation). Holotype (♀) in BYUC (Shawn M. Clark pers. comm. 2007). Synonymy established by Lindroth (1961a: 112). Note. Tanner (1942: 138) listed the type locality as "Torrey, Wayne County, Utah" but mistakenly wrote a few lines below that the holotype and a paratype [of Elaphrus torreyensis ] were "taken at Escalante, Garfield Co[unty]."

Distribution.

This species extends throughout the temperate and boreal regions of North America from Newfoundland to Alaska, south to northern California along the west coast, to the White Mountains in eastern Arizona and to central New Mexico along the Rocky Mountains, to west-central Nebraska (Arthur County, Foster F. Purrington pers. comm. 2010), and to New Jersey along the east coast [see Goulet 1983: Fig. 160]. The record from east-central Missouri (Summers 1873: 132) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC (QCI, VCI), LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, AZ, CA, CO, CT, ID, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NV, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, VT, WA, WI, WY [MO]