Harpalus martini Van Dyke, 1926

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 704

Harpalus martini Van Dyke, 1926

Harpalus martini Van Dyke, 1926a: 124. Type locality: "Bear Lake [= Baldwin Lake, San Bernardino County (see Noonan 1991: 190)], San Bernardino Mountains, California" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in CAS [# 1867]. Etymology. The specific name was proposed for James Otis Martin [1870-1951], a coleopterist by avocation. Martin served as a preparator of insects at the California Academy of Sciences from 1924 to 1932. His collection of 12,000 well-prepared beetles, most from western North America, was presented to the California Academy of Sciences in 1928.

Distribution.

This species is known from only 16 specimens (including 15 ♂) from mountains in southern California [see Noonan 1991: Fig. 287] and could be either endangered or extinct according to Noonan (1991: 189). The last known specimen found was collected in 1919.

Records.

USA: CA