Pterostichus vermiculosus ( Menetries , 1851)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 520-521

Pterostichus vermiculosus ( Menetries, 1851)

Lyperopherus vermiculosus Ménétriés, 1851: 48. Type locality: "Indega-Bucht [= Indiga Bay, on the Barents Sea coast] des Europäisch-Russischen Eismeeres unter 67°40'N. Br." (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1966: 528), in ZMH.

Lyperopherus intricatus Ménétriés, 1851: 49. Type locality: "Boganida [River, Siberia, Russia]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1966: 528), in ZMH. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 528).

Lyperopherus innuitorum Brown, 1950a: 231. Type locality: "Kidluit Bay, Richards Island, N[orth]W[est]T[erritories]" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in CNC [# 5775]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1954b: 131).

Distribution.

This Holarctic species is found in the arctic regions from European Russia to the Melville Peninsula and Southampton Island in eastern Nunavut, Canada (Lindroth 1966: 528). Fossil remnants of this species, dated between about 16,700 and 18,100 years B.P., have been unearthed in southeastern Iowa (Baker et al. 1986: 96); others from a Plio-Pleistocene sequence have been found in northwestern Greenland ( Böcher 1995: 28).

Records.

CAN: NT, NU, YT USA: AK - Holarctic