Amara erratica (Duftschmid, 1812)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 583

Amara erratica (Duftschmid, 1812)

Carabus erraticus Duftschmid, 1812: 120. Type locality: Austria (inferred from title of the book). Holotype [by monotypy] probably lost (Lindroth 1968: 716).

Amara punctulata Dejean, 1828: 472. Type locality: "Kamtschatka [Russia]; détroit de Norfolk sur la côte nord-ouest de l’Amérique du Nord [Alaska]" (original citation). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 17). Synonymy established by Zimmermann (1832: 24), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 17).

Amara septentrionalis Schiødte, 1837: 170. Type locality: "Lapland [probably Swedish Lappland]" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Hansen and Martin (2000: 214), in ZMUC. Synonymy established by Schiødte (1841: 187).

Amara affinis Motschulsky, 1850a: 60 [primary homonym of Amara affinis Dejean, 1828 and Amara affinis Motschulsky, 1845]. Type locality: "Kamtschatka [Russia]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Hieke (1975: 328), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Hieke (1975: 328).

Amara obscuricornis Motschulsky, 1859b: 540. Type locality: region of Yakutsk, east-central Siberia, Russia (inferred from title of the paper); «Kamtschatka» listed by Motschulsky (1850a: 60). Lectotype (♂), designated by Hieke (1975: 323), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Hieke (1975: 322). Note. Motschulsky described this taxon in a paper about beetles collected by Pavlofski in the "gouvernement de Iakoutsk." In the same publication, Motschulsky refers to his book Die Kaefer Russlands (1850) where the species is listed, but not described, and the provenance given is “Kamtschatka.” The lectotype, designated by Hieke (1975: 322), bears two labels: “Jakutsk” and "Amara obscuricornis Motsch. Sib. or. Kamtsch."

Amara sibirica Csiki, 1929: 427. Replacement name for Amara affinis Motschulsky, 1850.

Distribution.

This circumpolar species is found over most of the boreal-alpine region in the Palaearctic Region and in North America from Alaska (Lindroth 1968: 717) to Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 107), south to New England (Lindroth 1968: 716), northern Wisconsin (Messer 2010: 38), southern Colorado (Mineral County, UASM; Lindroth 1968: 716), northern Utah (Salt Lake County, CMNH), and Mount Rainier in western Washington (Lindroth 1968: 717). Several state records (e.g., CA, IA, MI, MN, ND, NM, OR) listed in Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 196) and taken from earlier authors probably refer to other species or need confirmation.

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, CO, ID, ME, MT, NH, UT, VT, WA, WI, WY - Holarctic