Scaphinotus merkelii (Horn, 1890)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 164-165

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scientific name	Scaphinotus merkelii (Horn, 1890)
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Cychrus merkelii G.H. Horn, 1890: 71. Type locality: "northern Idaho" (original citation), restricted to "Coeur d’Alene [Kootenai County]" by Lindroth (1961a: 20). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in MCZ [# 34934]. Etymology. The specific name honors August Merkel [1837-1897], a collector of beetles. Merkel was born in Einbeck, near Hanover, Germany.

Cychrus idahoensis Webb, 1901: 133. Type locality: "Cedar Mountain, Latah County and Collins, [both] Idaho" (original citation). Syntype(s) [14 originally cited] in WSU and ZMUA (Boer 2002: 57). Synonymy established by Gidaspow (1973: 74).

Distribution.

This species is known from western Montana (Russell 1968: 42), northern Idaho, Whitman County in southeastern Washington (CMNH), and the Creston area (Lindroth 1961a: 20) in southeastern British Columbia [see Gidaspow 1973: Fig. 4].

Records.

CAN: BC USA: ID, MT, WA