Bembidion nigropiceum (Marsham, 1802)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 434

Bembidion nigropiceum (Marsham, 1802)

Carabus nigropiceus Marsham, 1802: 468. Type locality: Great Britain (inferred from title of the book). Syntype(s) probably in BMNH (collection Stephens).

Bembidium sulcatulum Chaudoir [in Chaudoir and Hochhuth], 1846: 233. Type locality: "Kertch [= Kerch, eastern Crimea, Ukraine]" (original citation). Syntype(s) probably in MHNP. Synonymy established by Chaudoir (1850b: 182).

Bembidium puritanum Hayward, 1897: 129. Type locality: «Massachusetts» (original citation). Syntype(s) [4 originally cited] in MCZ [# 16304] and ANSP. Synonymy established by Erwin and Kavanaugh (1980: 241).

Distribution.

This adventive species was known on this continent until recently only from the four specimens upon which Hayward (1897: 129) described his Bembidion puritanum . Erwin and Kavanaugh (1980: 241) stated that the species was probably "accidentally introduced into Massachusetts from England through shipping in the late 1800s, that a population was sustained for a short time, but that it is not likely to have persisted to the present." However, more than 80 specimens were collected between 2007 and 2010 in Boston Harbor, Suffolk County, Massachusetts (Davidson and Rykken 2011: 491).

Records.

USA: MA - Adventive