Badister pulchellus LeConte, 1847

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 635

Badister pulchellus LeConte, 1847

Badister pulchellus LeConte, 1847: 418. Type locality: "Evansville Indianae , et in provinciis orientalibus" (original citation), restricted to "Evanston [error for Evansville, Vanderburgh County]" by Ball (1959: 204). Three syntypes in MCZ [# 5720].

Distribution.

This rarely collected species is known from southern Ontario (Lindroth 1969a: 959), northern Ohio (Ashtabula County, Harry J. Lee, Jr. pers. comm. 2008), southern Michigan (Clinton County, CMNH), northern and southwestern Indiana (LeConte 1847: 418; Ball 1959: 205), western Illinois, “Tennessee” (Ball 1959: 205), southwestern Alabama (Lindroth 1954b: 153), and Connecticut (New London County, Foster F. Purrington pers. comm. 2009). Most old (pre-1950s) records of this species refer to Badister neopulchellus .

Records.

CAN: ON USA: AL, CT, IL, IN, MI, OH, TN