Hartonymus hoodi Casey, 1914

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 710

Hartonymus hoodi Casey, 1914

Hartonymus hoodi Casey, 1914: 167. Type locality: "Topeka [Mason County], Illinois" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Ball (1976b: 423), in USNM [# 47906]. Etymology. The specific name honors Joseph Douglas Hood [1889-1966], professor at the University of Rochester and later at Cornell University. Hood (1952) recounted that while he already had the description of this species ready for publication and a drawing of the habitus of the adult, for which he paid $6.00 in 1911, he visited Casey in Washington to "ask him to check my determination." Casey looked at the specimens, closed the box which he carefully placed at the near corner of his desk and said to Hood "I am an old man. This is the finest carabid that I have ever seen or will see, and I hope that you will allow me to describe it."

Distribution.

This species in found along the Mississippi Basin from west-central Wisconsin (Messer 2010: 41) to eastern Nebraska (Colfax County, Foster F. Purrington pers. comm. 2010; Greeley County, R. Michael Brattain collection), south to Oklahoma (Ball and Bousquet 2000: 99) and Missouri [see Ball 1976b: Fig. 7].

Records.

USA: IA, IL, MO, NE, OK, WI