Elaphrus ruscarius Say, 1830

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 267

Elaphrus ruscarius Say, 1830

Elaphrus ruscarius Say, 1830b: (1) [3]. Type locality: "Columbia [Lancaster County], P[ennsylvani]a" (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 332), in MCZ [# 33085]. Note. "Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Arkansas, Missouri and the Rocky Mountains" were the areas originally cited by Say (1830b: (1) [3]).

Elaphrus texanus Casey, 1924: 17. Type locality: "Galveston [Galveston County], Texas" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 113), in USNM [# 46828]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1961a: 119).

Distribution.

This species ranges from southern Quebec to northern Minnesota, south to eastern Texas (Casey, 1924: 17, as Elaphrus texanus ), east-central Louisiana (Allen 1965: 61), southwestern Alabama ( Löding 1945: 11), and northern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 16) [see Goulet 1983: Fig. 168].

Records.

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