Calosoma scrutator (Fabricius, 1775)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 173-174

Calosoma scrutator (Fabricius, 1775)

Carabus scrutator Fabricius, 1775: 239. Type locality: «Virginia» (original citation). Two syntypes in BMNH (collection Banks) and ZMUC (Zimsen 1964: 60).

Distribution.

This widely distributed species ranges from western Maine (Majka et al. 2011: 45) to northeastern North Dakota (Tinerella 2003: 635), including southern Quebec (only as strays) and Ontario (Lindroth 1961a: 46), south to Venezuela (Gidaspow 1963: 283) and southern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 15), west along the southwest to “California” (Gidaspow 1959: 250) and Baja California (Leng 1915: 565). Two specimens, likely strays, have been collected in New Brunswick (Webster and Bousquet 2008: 16) and on Sable Island, Nova Scotia (Majka et al. 2007: 6). The species is not known from the West Indies.

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, ON, QC USA: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV - Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela