Scarites lissopterus Chaudoir, 1881

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 276

Scarites lissopterus Chaudoir, 1881

Scarites quadriceps var. lissopterus Chaudoir, 1881: 93. Type locality: "Dallas [Dallas County], Texas" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably in MHNP.

Distribution.

This species inhabits the Great Plains from south-central Kansas (Sedgwick County, MCZ) to the Rio Grande in Texas (Hidalgo and Cameron Counties, MCZ, USNM), west to western Texas (El Paso County, USNM), including southeastern and central New Mexico (Chaves County, CMNH; Ellis et al. 2001: 16), east to northeastern Louisiana (Franklin and Tensas Parishes, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009). The records from “Wisconsin” and “Iowa” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 96) are likely in error.

Records.

USA: KS, LA, NM, OK, TX

Note.

Bänninger (1938: 152) regarded this taxon as a subspecies of Scarites subterraneus Fabricius.