Miscodera arctica (Paykull, 1798)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 307-308

Miscodera arctica (Paykull, 1798)

Scarites arcticus Paykull, 1798: 85. Type locality: "Botnia occidentali & orientali [= Gulf of Bothnia, Sweden]" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably in NRSS.

Leiochiton readii Curtis, 1831: plate 346. Type locality: "on Cold-edge [Road], the moor due north of Halifax [West Yorkshire, United Kingdom]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Ganglbauer (1891a: 145).

Miscodera erythropus Motschulsky, 1844: 76. Type locality: "montagnes du Hamar-Daban près de la station Chybet [Irkutsk Oblast, Russia]" (original citation). Three syntypes in ZMMU (Keleinikova 1976: 196). Synonymy established by Horn (1881: 168).

Miscodera americana Mannerheim, 1853: 134. Type locality: "ad fl[umen] Skeljanktnu peninsulae Kenai [Alaska]" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] location unknown. Synonymy established by Horn (1881: 168).

Miscodera hardyi Chaudoir, 1861b: 525. Type locality: "S[ain]t Pierre [et] Miquelon" (original citation). Syntype(s) [2 originally cited] in MHNP. Synonymy established by Horn (1881: 168).

Distribution.

This circumpolar species ranges from Ireland to the Bering Sea coast (Bousquet 2003b: 237) and from Alaska (Lindroth 1961a: 171) to Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 133), south to northeastern New York (Notman 1928: 241), the upper peninsula of Michigan (Chippewa County, MCZ), northern Wisconsin (Bayfield County, MCZ), northern Colorado (Dajoz 1989: 337; Gilpin County, CMNH), southern Montana, and northern Washington (Hatch 1933b: 7). Fossil remnants of this species, believed to be 2.0-2.5 million years old, have been found in Greenland (Bennike and Böcher 1990: 336; Böcher 1995: 23); others, about 20,530 years B.P., have been unearthen in northeastern Iowa (Woodman et al. 1996: 17).

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, CO, ME, MI, MT, NH, NY, VT, WA, WI, WY - Holarctic