Galerita atripes LeConte, 1858

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 840

Galerita atripes LeConte, 1858

Galerita atripes LeConte, 1858b: 59. Type locality: "Fort Riley [junction of Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers], Kansas" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Reichardt (1967: 28), in MCZ [# 5793].

Galerita decipiens G.H. Horn, 1885a: 131. Type locality: «Arizona» (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Reichardt (1967: 28), in MCZ [# 34500]. Synonymy established by Reichardt (1967: 28).

Distribution.

This species is known from southeastern Louisiana (Saint Tammany Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009), Missouri, southeastern Nebraska (Nemaha County, Foster F. Purrington pers. comm. 2011), eastern Kansas (Popenoe 1877: 23; Horn 1872c: 385), eastern Texas, several mountain ranges in southern Arizona, and from the Sierra Huachinera of eastern Sonora and western Chihuahua in northern Mexico [see Ball and Nimmo 1983: Fig. 10]; it is also listed from “Oklahoma” by Arnold (2008). The record from eastern Iowa (Wickham 1911b: 7) needs confirmation.

Records.

USA: AZ, KS, LA, MO, NE, OK, TX [IA] - Mexico