Trachypachus gibbsii LeConte, 1861

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 124

Trachypachus gibbsii LeConte, 1861

Trachypachys gibbsii LeConte, 1861b: 339. Type locality: "east of Fort Colville [Washington]" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 85]. Etymology. The specific name honors the American geologist and ethnologist George Gibbs [1815-1873] who gathered zoological specimens for the Smithsonian while working for the Northwest Boundary Commission.

Trachypachus californicus Motschulsky, 1864: 194. Type locality: «Calif[ornie]» (original citation). Two syntypes, one listed as “corruptum,” in ZMMU (Keleinikova 1976: 190). Synonymy established by Horn (1870a: 71).

Trachypachus alticola Casey, 1920: 144. Type locality: "Lake Tahoe [Placer County], California" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 111), in USNM [# 46830]. Synonymy established by Van Dyke (1925: 112), confirmed by Lindroth (1961a: 3).

Distribution.

This species ranges from southern British Columbia (Lindroth 1961a: 4) to northwestern Montana (Russell 1968: 42; Edwards 1975: 48), south to the southern part of the Sierra Nevada (Lindroth 1961a: 4) and to the Coast Ranges (Fall 1901a: 39) in California.

Records.

CAN: BC USA: CA, ID, MT, OR, WA