Selenophorus palliatus (Fabricius, 1798)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 715

Selenophorus palliatus (Fabricius, 1798)

Carabus palliatus Fabricius, 1798: 58. Type locality: "America boreali" (original citation). One syntype in ZMUC (Zimsen 1964: 57).

Harpalus stigmosus Germar, 1824: 25. Type locality: «Georgia» (original citation). Syntype(s) probably lost. Synonymy established by Brullé (1835c: 290).

Selenophorus impressus Dejean, 1829: 82. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 28). Synonymy established with the name Selenophorus stigmosus Germar by Dejean (1829: 82), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 28).

Distribution.

This species is found throughout much of southern United States from North Carolina (Brimley 1938: 128) to the Florida Keys and the Bahamas (Peck and Thomas 1998: 22), west to southeastern California (Andrews et al. 1979: 28) and the Baja California Peninsula (Horn 1894: 312), including southern Illinois (Union and Pope Counties, UASM), south to southeastern Texas (Wickham 1897: 113; Johnson 1978: 68; Cameron and San Patricio Counties, UASM) and San Luis Potosí (UASM). The record from “Virginia” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 241) needs confirmation.

Records.

USA: AL, AR, AZ, CA, FL, GA, IL, LA, MS, NC, NM, SC, TX [VA] - Bahamas, Mexico