Badister elegans LeConte, 1880

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 633

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416
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scientific name	Badister elegans LeConte, 1880
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Treatment

Badister elegans LeConte, 1880b: 165. Type locality: "Bosque Co[unty, Texas]" (original citation). Two syntypes [3 originally cited] in MCZ [# 5722].

Distribution.

This rarely collected species ranges from “Illinois” to eastern Kansas (Ball 1959: 206), south to Coahuila and Tamaulipas (Ball 1992a: 375) in northern Mexico, southeastern Louisiana (East Baton Rouge Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009), and western Alabama (Tuscaloosa County, UASM). The records from southwestern New Jersey (Smith 1910: 207), “Florida” (Leng 1915: 580), “Delaware” (Houghton 1905: 211), and “Colorado” (Csiki 1931: 903) need confirmation.

Records.

USA: AL, AR, IL, KS, LA, MO, OK, TX [CO, DE, FL, NJ] - Mexico