Amara sinuosa (Casey, 1918)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 582

Amara sinuosa (Casey, 1918)

Isopleurus nitidus Kirby, 1837: 50 [secondary homonym of Amara nitida Sturm, 1825]. Type locality: "Rocky Mountains" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in BMNH (Lindroth 1953b: 175).

Acrodon subaenea LeConte, 1850: 208 [secondary homonym of Amara subaenea Sturm, 1825]. Type locality: Lake Superior (inferred from title of the paper). Four syntypes in MCZ [# 5689], one in MHNP (collection Chaudoir) (Putzeys 1866b: 194). Synonymy established by LeConte (1873b: 324), confirmed by Lindroth (1968: 701).

Celia sinuosa Casey, 1918: 277. Type locality: "Aldermere, British Columbia" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 133), in USNM [# 47211]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 701).

Celia elusa Casey, 1918: 277. Type locality: "probably Colorado" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in USNM [# 47212]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 701).

Celia nupta Casey, 1918: 278. Type locality: "Lake Champlain, New York" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 133), in USNM [# 47208]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 701).

Celia thoracica Casey, 1918: 278. Type locality: "Boulder Co[unty], Colorado" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 133), in USNM [# 47209]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 701).

Celia hospes Casey, 1918: 279. Type locality: "Boulder Co[unty], Colorado" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 133), in USNM [# 47210]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 701).

Amara subaenescens Csiki, 1929: 445. Replacement name for Amara subaenea (LeConte, 1850).

Distribution.

This species is found from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 104-105, as Amara subaenescens ) to the Queen Charlotte Islands (Kavanaugh 1992: 75) and Vancouver Island, north to the Alaskan coast (Lindroth 1968: 703), south at least to east-central Utah (Grand County, CMNH, CNC), southern Colorado (Costilla and Mineral Counties, UASM), the Black Hills in western South Dakota (USNM), northwestern Indiana (Blatchley 1910: 109, as Amara subaenea ), and northern New York (Casey 1918: 278, as Celia nupta ). The records from southeastern New Jersey (Smith 1910: 206, as Amara subaenea ), “Nebraska” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 199), and Kansas (Knaus 1898: 19 and Snow 1903: 193, as Amara subaenea ) need confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC (QCI, VCI), LB, MB, NB, NF, NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, CO, IA, ID, IL, IN, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NY, SD, UT, WI, WY [KS, NE, NJ]