Pasimachus marginatus (Fabricius, 1787)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 274

Pasimachus marginatus (Fabricius, 1787)

Scarites marginatus Fabricius, 1787: 206. Type locality: "Cajennae [= Cayenne, French Guiana]" (original citation), which is incorrect. Lectotype [as type], designated by Staig (1931: 23), in HMUG.

Pasimachus crassus Casey, 1913: 81. Type locality: "Southern Pines [Moore County], North Carolina" (original citation). Four syntypes in USNM [# 46881]. Synonymy established by Erwin et al. (1977: 4.11).

Distribution.

This species ranges from southern Maryland (Peter W. Messer pers. comm. 2010) to the Florida Keys (Nichols 1988b: Fig. 5-4; Peck and Thomas 1998: 16), west to “Texas” (Leng 1915: 565; Bänninger 1950: 488), north along the Mississippi River drainage to southwestern Kentucky (Mammoth Cave National Park, CMNH).

Records.

USA: AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX

Note.

Bänninger (1950: 509) retained Pasimachus crassus Casey as a questionable subspecies of Pasimachus marginatus .