Notiophilus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 148-149

Notiophilus aquaticus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Cicindela aquatica Linnaeus, 1758: 408. Type locality: «Europa» (original citation), restricted to «Sweden» by Lindroth (1961a: 95). Syntype(s) location unknown. Note. Three Linnean specimens are present in LSL under this name, but none belong to the present species (Lindroth 1957b: 336).

Cicindela pusilla Schreber, 1759: 10. Type locality: "prope Halam [= Halle, Germany]" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably lost. Synonymy established by Fabricius (1775: 227).

Elaphrus semipunctatus Fabricius, 1775: 227. Type locality: "Halae Saxonum [= Halle, Germany]" (original citation). Three syntypes in ZMUC (Zimsen 1964: 66). Synonymy established by Fauvel (1883: 90).

Notiophilus metallicus G.R. Waterhouse, 1833: 203. Type locality: England (inferred from title of the paper). Holotype [by monotypy] location unknown (possibly in BMNH). Synonymy established by Dawson (1854: 54).

Notiophilus newmanni G.R. Waterhouse, 1833: 205. Type locality: "Snowdon [Great Britain]" (original citation). Syntype(s) [3 originally cited] location unknown (possibly in BMNH). Synonymy established by Dawson (1854: 54). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Edward Newman [1801-1876], British naturalist and printer. Newman co-founded The Entomological Magazine and founded The Entomologist. His publications dealt mainly with entomology but he also wrote on several other natural history subjects including botany, especially ferns.

Notiophilus dauricus Chaudoir, 1850b: 164. Type locality not stated. Syntype(s) probably in MHNP (collection Chaudoir). Synonymy re-established by Reitter (1897: 361). Note. Motschulsky (1859b: 539) first described this taxon under the name Notiophilus aquaticus var. dauricus in a paper about the beetles of the government of Yakutsk, Siberia, and the name has been attributed to him since. However, Chaudoir (1850b: 164) published the name earlier as a junior synonym of Notiophilus aquaticus ("M. de Motschoulski m’a envoyé l’ Aquaticus sous le nom de Dauricus ") and therefore the name is available from its first publication as a synonym (ICZN 1999: Article 11.6.1).

Notiophilus hardyi Putzeys, 1866a: 165. Type locality: «Terre-Neuve» (original citation). Syntype(s) in MHNP (collection Chaudoir). Synonymy established by Fall (1906: 84), confirmed by Lindroth (1954b: 121).

Distribution.

The range of this circumpolar species extends from Iceland to the Bering Sea Coast (Bousquet and Barševskis 2003: 96) and from Alaska (Lindroth 1961a: 95) to Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 34), south to Pennsylvania (Capogreco 1989b: 4) and to New Mexico and Arizona (Fall 1906: 85; Lindroth 1961a: 95) along the Rocky Mountains. Fossil remnants from a Plio-Pleistocene sequence have been found in northwestern Greenland ( Böcher 1995: 18).

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), ON, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, AZ, CO, ID, IL, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NM, NY, OH, PA, UT, VT, WI, WY - Holarctic