Scaphinotus violaceus (LeConte, 1863)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 164

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Scaphinotus violaceus (LeConte, 1863)
status

 

Scaphinotus violaceus (LeConte, 1863) View in CoL

Cychrus violaceus LeConte, 1863c: 4. Type locality: "Mountains of Georgia" (original citation), herein restricted to Tray Mountain (4400 feet), Towns County (see Valentine 1935: 358). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 614].

Steniridia violacea carolinae Valentine, 1935: 358. Type locality: "Blue Ridge M[oun]-t[ain]s, N[orth] C[arolina]" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in USNM [# 56133]. New synonymy (Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2008; see Barr 1970: 3).

Distribution.

This species has been reported from the Appalachians in western North Carolina, northern Georgia (Valentine 1935: 358), and northwestern South Carolina (Ciegler 2000: 32).

Records.

USA: GA, NC, SC

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Scaphinotus

Loc

Scaphinotus violaceus (LeConte, 1863)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Steniridia violacea carolinae

Valentine 1935
1935
Loc

Cychrus violaceus

LeConte 1863
1863