Ozaena lemoulti Baenninger , 1932

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 475

Ozaena lemoulti Baenninger, 1932

Ozaena lemoulti Bänninger, 1932: 184. Type locality: "Saint Jean du Maroni, Franz[ ösisch] Guayana" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in ETHZ. Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Eugène Henri Le Moult [1882-1965], collector of insects in Guyana and later insect dealer in Paris. His father was the director of the penitentiary at Cayenne and Le Moult used convicts to collect Morpho in large number. In 1913 he published his first sale catalogue of insects and a pair of the large cerambycid Titanus giganteus was offered for 500 francs (Moret 1995: 404).

Ozaena halffteri Ogueta, 1965: 83. Type locality: "Tlapacoyan, Veracruz, México» (original citation). Holotype (♀) location unknown. Synonymy established by Ball and McCleve (1990: 100).

Distribution.

This species ranges from southern Arizona to northern Argentina, including the Cayman Islands in the West Indies (Ball and Shpeley 1990: 814-815).

Records.

USA: AZ - Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Venezuela.