Perigona nigriceps (Dejean, 1831)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 781

Perigona nigriceps (Dejean, 1831)

Bembidium nigriceps Dejean, 1831: 44. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to «Georgia» by Lindroth (1968: 651). Holotype [by monotypy] in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 22; Erwin 1974a: 126).

Trechicus umbripennis LeConte, 1853c: 386. Type locality: "Georgia; Carolina" (original citation). Three syntypes in MCZ [# 5791]. Synonymy established by Horn (1875: 126), confirmed by Bousquet (1987a: 128).

Polyderis testaceolimbata Motschulsky, 1862b: 33. Type locality: "environs de Mobile [Mobile County, Alabama]" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Erwin (1974a: 127), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Erwin (1974a: 127).

Polyderis glabrella Motschulsky, 1862b: 34. Type locality: "Mobile [Mobile County, Alabama]" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Erwin (1974a: 127), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Erwin (1974a: 127).

Distribution.

This species is subcosmopolitan. It is adventive in North America where it is known from Nova Scotia (Pictou County, CNC) to eastern Iowa (Muscatine County, Doug A. Veal pers. comm. 2009), south to east-central Texas (Riley 2011), central Louisiana (Grant Parish, CNC) and southern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 23) in the east, and from Oregon (Hatch 1953: 147) to southern California (Fall 1901a: 47) in the west. The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found prior to 1853 (LeConte 1853c: 386, as Trechicus umbripennis ). Basilewsky (1953a: 108) believed the species originated along the coast of the Indian Ocean where it is very abundant in rubbish and groundnut.

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, ON, QC USA: AL, AR, CA, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV - Adventive