Bembidion contractum Say, 1823

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 393-394

Bembidion contractum Say, 1823

Bembidium contractum Say, 1823a: 85. Type locality: "Ipswich [Essex County], Mass[achusetts]" (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 337), in MCZ [# 33064].

Distribution.

This species is found along the Atlantic Coast from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 70), the Maritime Provinces (Lindroth 1963b: 373), and the Magdalen Islands (Larochelle 1975: 55) to southern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 18) and along the Gulf Coast to southern Louisiana (Summers 1874a: 81; Hine 1906: 76; Allen 1965: 65). The records from “Ohio,” “Tennessee” (Hayward 1897: 109), eastern Kansas (Popenoe 1877: 24), and “Pennsylvania” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 144) need confirmation.

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: NB, NF, NS (CBI), PE, QC USA: AL, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, LA, MA, MD, ME, NH, NJ, NY, RI, SC [KS, OH, PA, TN]