Trechus quadristriatus (Schrank, 1781)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 337

Trechus quadristriatus (Schrank, 1781)

Carabus quadristriatus Schrank, 1781: 218. Type locality: Austria (inferred from title of the book). Syntype(s) probably lost.

Carabus minutus Fabricius, 1792: 167 [primary homonym of Carabus minutus Rossi, 1790]. Type locality: «Germania» (original citation). One syntype in ZMUC (Zimsen 1964: 60). Synonymy established by Dawson (1854: 169).

Carabus tempestivus Panzer, 1799: no 6. Type locality: "Dresdae [Germany]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in ZMHB). Synonymy established, under the name Trechus minutus (Fabricius), by Erichson (1837: 121).

Distribution.

This European species is adventive in North America where it is known from Nova Scotia (Majka et al. 2006: 603) to northern Wisconsin (Iron County, CMNH; Messer 2010: 35), as far north as the Abitibi region in Quebec (Paquin and Dupérré 2002: 87), south to northeastern West Virginia (Hampshire County, CMNH) and eastern Maryland (Queen Annes County, Foster F. Purrington pers. comm. 2009). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found at Port Credit, southern Ontario, in 1965 (Bousquet et al. 1984: 215).

Records.

CAN: NS, ON, QC USA: MD, MI, NY, PA, WI, WV - Adventive