Amblycheila schwarzi Horn, 1904

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 198-199

Amblycheila schwarzi Horn, 1904

Amblychila schwarzi W. Horn, 1904: 98. Type locality not stated; "Truxton Valley, Peach Springs (5,000 ft.), Arizona" selected by Freitag (1999: 8). Syntype(s) [2 originally cited] probably in ZMHB. Note. This name is usually credited to Horn (1903a: 196) who first proposed it. Horn (1903a: 196) reported that " Amblycheila piccolomini G. Horn, Leconte, Leng ex parte" is different from " Amblycheila piccolomini Rivers" and gave the name Amblycheila schwarzi to the form not identical with " Amblycheila piccolomini Reiche." In my opinion, Horn’s statement does not constitute a description by indication. The next year Horn published a description of Amblycheila schwarzi and stated, after seeing the type of Amblycheila picolominii Reiche in Paris, that his new species was the " Amblycheila piccolomini Rivers and Leng, ex parte."

Amblycheila utahensis Tanner, 1951: 47. Type locality: "Diamond Valley, 15 miles north of S[ain]t George, Washington County, Utah" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in BYUC (Shawn M. Clark pers. comm. 2007). Synonymy established by Vaurie (1955: 20).

Distribution.

This species, also known as the "Mojave Giant Tiger Beetle", is found from northwestern Arizona and southwestern Utah west to the desert mountains of southeastern California east of the Sierra Nevada [see Vaurie 1955: Fig. 1 and Pearson et al. 2006: Map 2].

Records.

USA: AZ, CA, NV, UT