Amara anthobia Villa and Villa, 1833

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 593

Amara anthobia Villa and Villa, 1833

Amara anthobia A. Villa and G.B. Villa, 1833: 33. Type locality not stated; «Italia» selected by Lindroth (1968: 731). Syntype(s) probably lost (Lindroth 1968: 731).

Distribution.

This European species is adventive in North America where it is known from southern British Columbia (Jarrett and Scudder 2001: 379) to southern California (Los Angeles County, CMNH). The first inventoried specimen collected in that area was found in southwestern Washington in 1929 (Hatch and Kincaid 1958: 5). The species has been recorded also from the Washington D.C. area since 1964 (Hieke 1990: 205) and has been recently collected in Westchester County in southeastern New York (Peter W. Messer pers. comm. 2011).

Records.

CAN: BC USA: CA, MD, NY, OR, VA, WA - Adventive