Scaphinotus johnsoni Van Dyke, 1924

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Scaphinotus johnsoni Van Dyke, 1924

Scaphinotus johnsoni Van Dyke, 1924b: 3. Type locality: "Olympic Mountains, Washington" (original citation). Holotype (♀) in CAS [# 3335]. Etymology. This specific name was proposed for Orson Bennett Johnson [1849-1917], a pioneer Pacific Northwest entomologist and first professor of natural science at the University of Washington.

Scaphinotus klahowyae Perrault, 1973b: 47. Type locality: "Klahowya, near Sappho, Clallam Co[unty], Olympic Peninsula, Washington" (original citation). Holotype (♂) location unknown (probably in MHNP). Synonymy established by Greene (1976: 326).

Distribution.

This rarely collected species is restricted to the southern part of Vancouver Island (Lindroth 1961a: 22) and the Olympic Mountains in northwestern Washington (Van Dyke 1924b: 3).

Records.

CAN: BC (VCI) USA: WA

Note.

This species has been placed in the subgenus Brennus by Lindroth (1961a: 22) and Gidaspow (1968: 155) but van den Berghe and Davidson (Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2008) agreed that this small species is a member of the subgenus Stenocantharus .