Euphorticus pubescens (Dejean, 1831)

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Euphorticus pubescens (Dejean, 1831)

Lachnophorus pubescens Dejean, 1831: 30. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 22).

Lachnophorus niger Gory, 1833: 245. Type locality: "Cayenne [French Guiana]" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably in MHNP (collection Chaudoir). Synonymy established by Bates (1883a: 156).

Lachnophorus laevicollis Reiche, 1843c: 180. Type locality: "provincia Novae Granatae [= present day Panama and Colombia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably in MHNP (collection Chaudoir). Synonymy established by Bates (1883a: 156).

Euphorticus pubescens var. aeneolus Bates, 1883a: 156. Type locality: "Jalapa, Oaxaca [in] Mexico; near the city, San Gerónimo, Paso Antonio [in] Guatemala; Amazons to Santa Catharina , S. Brazil" (original citation). Syntype(s) in BMNH. Synonymy established by Liebherr (1988: 28).

Distribution.

This species is found along the Coastal Plain from southeastern North Carolina to central Florida, west to northeastern Texas (Dallas County, MCZ) and central Oklahoma (Grady County, Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2012), including west-central Louisiana (Allen 1965: 67), along the Mississippi Basin in southwestern Ohio (Blatchley 1910: 137) and central Indiana (Downie and White 1967: 308), in the West Indies from the Bahamas (Turnbow and Thomas 2008: 12) to Trinidad, in tropical mainland from central Mexico to Santa Catarina in Brazil [see Liebherr 1988: Fig. 17], and along southwestern United States from New Mexico (Snow 1885: 66; Fall and Cockerell 1907: 159) to southern Arizona (Pima County, MCZ); also recorded from the southern part of the Baja California Peninsula (Horn 1895: 226). The record from southeastern Pennsylvania (Rathvon 1869: 523) must be in error.

Records.

USA: AL, AZ, FL, GA, IN, LA, MS, NC, NM, OH, OK, SC, TX - Bahamas, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, French Guiana, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Venezuela