Chlaenius obsoletus LeConte, 1851

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

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scientific name

Chlaenius obsoletus LeConte, 1851
status

 

Chlaenius obsoletus LeConte, 1851

Chlaenius obsoletus LeConte, 1851: 180. Type locality: "San Diego et Colorado [River] [California]" (original citation), herein restricted to San Diego, San Diego County. Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 74].

Chlaenius rogator Motschulsky, 1859a: 157. Type locality: "St. Francisco [San Francisco County, California]" (original citation). One syntype in ZMMU (Keleinikova 1976: 214). Synonymy established with doubt by Chaudoir (1876b: 244).

Distribution.

This species ranges from central California (Bell 1960: 150) south to “Nicaragua” (Bates 1882a: 44) and the Baja California Peninsula (Horn 1894: 311), including western New Mexico (Catron County, UASM; Snow 1885: 67; Fall and Cockerell 1907: 160) and western Texas (Jeff Davis County, UASM). The record from “Utah” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 208) needs confirmation.

Records.

USA: AZ, CA (CHI), NM, TX [UT] - Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Chlaenius

Loc

Chlaenius obsoletus LeConte, 1851

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Chlaenius rogator

Motschulsky 1859
1859
Loc

Chlaenius obsoletus

LeConte 1851
1851