Chlaenius variabilipes Eschscholtz, 1833

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 622

Chlaenius variabilipes Eschscholtz, 1833

Chlaenius variabilipes Eschscholtz, 1833: 27. Type locality: "bei St. Franzisco [San Francisco County], Californien" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown.

Chlaenius asperulus Ménétriés, 1843: 55. Type locality: «Californie» (original citation). One syntype in ZMH (collection Mannerheim) (Silfverberg 1987: 12). Synonymy established by LeConte (1856b: 28).

Chlaenius obscurus LeConte, 1851: 179. Type locality: "San Jose, et ad flumen Colorado" (original citation). Six syntypes in MCZ [# 70]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1856b: 28) and Chaudoir (1856: 270).

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from southeastern Oregon (Harney County, James R. LaBonte pers. comm. 1992) and west-central Nevada (Bell 1960: 150) south to the Baja California Peninsula (Horn 1894: 311) and at least Durango in Mexico (Ball and Shpeley 1992a: 61). The specimens labeled from Texas (Bell 1960: 150) are probably mislabeled or represent strays.

Records.

USA: AZ, CA, NV, OR, UT [TX] - Mexico