Pterostichus sublaevis (Sahlberg, 1880)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 521-522

Pterostichus sublaevis (Sahlberg, 1880)

Feronia sublaevis J.R. Sahlberg, 1880: 24. Type locality: "Tolstoinos, in littore arenoso fluminis Jenissej [= Tolstyy Nos, Taymyr Autonomous Okrug, Russia]" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in NRSS.

Pterostichus sublaevis var. unicoloripes Poppius, 1910: 335. Type locality: "Chara-Ulach-Gebirgen [= Kharaulakhskiy Khrebet] an der Lena-Mündung, unweit der Insel Tit-ary [northern Siberia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (apparently not at ZMH according to Silfverberg’s (1987) list of insect types). Synonymy established (as aberration) by Csiki (1930: 678).

Pterostichus rufofemoralis Van Dyke, 1926a: 113. Type locality: "Iron Creek, sixty miles north of Nome, Alaska" (original citation). Holotype (♀) in CAS [# 1853]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 530).

Distribution.

This Holarctic tundra species is found from the northern part of European Russia (Brinev and Shilenkov 2001) to northwestern Northwest Territories (Lindroth 1966: 531). Fossil remnants of this species, dated between about 16,700 and 18,100 years B.P., have been unearthed in southeastern Iowa (Baker et al. 1986: 96).

Records.

CAN: NT, YT USA: AK - Holarctic