Pterostichus hamiltoni Horn, 1880

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 522-523

Pterostichus hamiltoni Horn, 1880

Pterostichus hamiltoni G.H. Horn, 1880a: 139. Type locality: "near Allegheny City [Allegheny County], Pennsylvania" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Bousquet (1999: 149), in MCZ [# 8234]. Etymology. The specific name honors John Hamilton [1827-1897], a physician by profession who had an interest in entomology and ornithology.

Distribution.

This species is known from scattered localities from Ohio (Purrington et al. 1989: 107; Usis and MacLean 1998: 67) and southwestern Pennsylvania (Horn 1880a: 139; Allegheny, Fayette, and Westmoreland Counties, CMNH) south to northern Georgia (Fattig 1949: 25).

Records.

USA: GA, MD, OH, PA, WV

Note.

In the Zoological Record for the year 1880, this species is registered (page 23) as " Pterostichus (Peristethus) maximiliani ."