Agonum sordens Kirby, 1837

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 752

Agonum sordens Kirby, 1837

Agonum sordens Kirby, 1837: 25. Type locality: "Lat. 54° [= along North Saskatchewan River]" (original citation), restricted to "Edmonton, Al[ber]ta" by Lindroth (1966: 575). One syntype [2 originally cited] in BMNH (Lindroth 1953b: 170).

Platynus picicornis LeConte, 1860: 319. Type locality: "Jasper House [= Jasper, Alberta]" (original citation). One syntype in MCZ [# 5783]. Synonymy established by Hatch (1953: 144) and Lindroth (1953b: 170).

Anchomenus ineptus Casey, 1920: 63. Type locality: "Coeur d’Alene [Kootenai County], Idaho" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 126), in USNM [# 47441]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 575).

Europhilus frosti Casey, 1924: 86. Type locality: "Eastbrook [Hancock County], Maine" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 126), in USNM [# 47535]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1954b: 140).

Distribution.

This species ranges from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 127) to central Alaska (Lindroth 1966: 576), south to “Oregon” (Hatch 1953: 144), southern Colorado (Wickham 1902: 239; LeConte 1879d: 500), northern Illinois (Lake County, CNC), and Maryland (Erwin 1981b: 154). The records from “Iowa” (Jaques and Redlinger 1946: 295), northeastern Kansas (Popenoe 1878: 78), and "North Carolina" (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 254) need confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, CO, ID, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NH, NJ, NY, OR, PA, SD, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV [IA, KS, NC]