Poecilus laetulus (LeConte, 1863)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 496-497

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416
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scientific name	Poecilus laetulus (LeConte, 1863)
status

Treatment

Pterostichus laetulus LeConte, 1863c: 10. Type locality: "San Jose [Santa Clara County, California]" (original citation for Poecilus occidentalis Dejean sensu LeConte, 1853). Lectotype (♂), designated by Bousquet (1999: 62), in MCZ [# 5635]. Note. This name was proposed for Pterostichus occidentalis (Dejean, 1828) sensu LeConte (1853a: 253). By an unfortunate error, LeConte (1863c: 10) used the specific name californicus instead of occidentalis.

Distribution.

This species ranges from southeastern Washington (Hatch 1953: 115) to southern California (Fall 1901a: 44; Moore 1937: 9) and southern Arizona (Wickham 1898: 300). The records from New Mexico (Wickham 1896a: 157; Fall and Cockerell 1907: 158) and northeastern Kansas (Popenoe 1878: 78) are probably based on misidentified specimens.

Records.

USA: AZ, CA (CHI), OR, WA