Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 686

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828
status

 

Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828

Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828a: 163. Type locality: "near Dover [United Kingdom]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1968: 757), in BMNH.

Distribution.

This Palaearctic species is adventive in North America where it is known from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia (Majka et al. 2006: 606) to eastern Iowa (Linn County, Doug A. Veal pers. comm. 2009), south to southern Pennsylvania [see Larochelle and Larivière 1989b: Fig. 1] and New Jersey (Steffens and Davidson 1979: 64). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Long Island, New York, in 1954 (Dietrich 1958: 46).

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, ON, PE, QC USA: CT, IA, IL, MA, ME, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT, WI - Adventive

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Ophonus

Loc

Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Ophonus puncticeps

Stephens 1828
1828