Atranus pubescens (Dejean, 1828)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 782

Atranus pubescens (Dejean, 1828)

Anchomenus pubescens Dejean, 1828: 122. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to "White Sulphur Springs [Greenbrier County], W[est] V[irgini]a" by Lindroth (1966: 648). Holotype [by monotypy] in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 22).

Anchomenus obconicus Haldeman, 1843b: 299. Type locality: southeastern Pennsylvania (Haldeman 1843a: 296). Syntype(s) presumably lost. Synonymy established by LeConte (1847: 439).

Atranus pallescens Casey, 1913: 172. Type locality: "Fairmont Park, Philadelphia [Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 130), in USNM [# 47616]. Synonymy established (as aberration) by Csiki (1931: 740), confirmed by Lindroth (1966: 648).

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from central Nova Scotia (Hants County, Christopher G. Majka pers. comm. 2008) to southwestern Nebraska (Foster F. Purrington pers. comm. 2010), south to “Texas” (Barr 1964: 3; Lindroth 1968: 649) and west-central South Carolina (Ciegler 2000: 108).

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, ON, QC USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV