Blethisa hudsonica Casey, 1924

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 261-262

Blethisa hudsonica Casey, 1924

Blethisa hudsonica Casey, 1924: 18. Type locality: "Edmonton, Alberta" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 113), in USNM [# 46834].

Distribution.

This Nearctic species ranges from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 31) to westernmost Yukon Territory (Goulet et al. 2009: 33), south to southern British Columbia (Lindroth 1961a: 106), northwestern Montana (Russell 1968: 46; LaBonte and Johnson 1989: 170), northern Illinois (Blatchley 1910: 50), and Massachusetts (Middlesex County, MCZ, USNM) [see Morgan et al. 1986: Fig. 4]. The record from “Pennsylvania” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 86, as Blethisa multipunctata aurata ), based on several specimens labeled from Erie County in CMNH, is doubtful (Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2008); that from Circle in Alaska (Lindroth 1961a: 106) needs confirmation.

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT USA: IL, MA, ME, MI, MT, ND, NH, NY, VT, WI [AK, PA]

Note.

This species has passed under the name Blethisa multipunctata (Linnaeus, 1758) or Blethisa multipunctata aurata Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 in the North American literature.