Bembidion oberthueri Hayward, 1901

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 396

Bembidion oberthueri Hayward, 1901

Bembidium oberthueri Hayward, 1901: 158. Type locality: "Winnipeg, Man[itoba]" (original citation for the lectotype). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1963b: 375), in MCZ. Etymology. The specific name honors René Oberthür [1852-1944], a wealthy amateur coleopterist. His father, François-Charles Oberthür, himself an amateur lepidopterist, owned the largest printing house in France at one time, with about 1,000 employees, and became extremely rich through his creativity. At Rennes he built a specially-made house just to hold the Lepidoptera collection of his oldest son, Charles, and the Coleoptera collection of René. The Oberthür collection was built almost entirely through purchases, by financing collecting expeditions abroad, and by trade. Indeed, the Oberthürs agreed to provide several missionary congregations with their printed material free of charge in exchange for an obligation for the missionaries to collect all insects they saw. During World War II, Georg Frey, himself a beetle collector who eventually gathered one of the two largest personal collections ever built (the other was the Oberthür collection), was an officer in the German army; he made sure that the Oberthür building housing the collection was properly heated and maintained (Cambefort 2006: 244-250). Note. This name was proposed for Notaphus viridicollis LaFerté-Sénectère, 1841 sensu Hayward (1897: 103) and the description was by indication (see ICZN 1999: Article 12.2). Three specimens in MCZ are labeled as “Type” [# 16296] but the lectotype is the one labeled "Winnipeg Man July 7-12, 1887 / Roland Hayward Coll."

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from New Brunswick to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta (Lindroth 1963b: 375), south to south-central Montana (Carbon County, UASM), “Nebraska,” “Illinois” (Hayward 1897: 103, as Bembidion viridicolle ), and southeastern West Virginia (Greenbrier County, David R. Maddison pers. comm. 2011). The record from San Bernardino County, California (Cooper 1976: 163) is probably based on a mislabeled specimen; that from “Indiana” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 144) needs confirmation. One specimen from Kamloops, British Columbia, was regarded as possibly mislabeled by Lindroth (1963b: 375).

Records.

CAN: AB, MB, NB, ON, QC, SK USA: CT, IA, IL, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, NH, NY, OH, PA, SD, VT, WI, WV [BC, IN]