Acupalpus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1760)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 681

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Acupalpus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1760)
status

 

Acupalpus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1760)

Carabus meridianus Linnaeus, 1760: 221. Type locality: Sweden (inferred from title of the book). Three possible syntypes, two belonging to the present species, in LSL (Lindroth 1957b: 332).

Distribution.

This Palaearctic species is adventive in North America where it is known from the Quebec City area (Chantal 1971: 202) in the east and from south-central Saskatchewan (Ronald R. Hooper pers. comm. 2007) to Vancouver Island (Lindroth 1968: 930), including central Alberta (Pollock 1991a: 705), south to “Oregon” (Hatch 1953: 185) and northern Idaho (Hatten et al. 2007: 359) in the west. The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Seattle in 1931 (Hatch 1946: 77).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC (VCI), QC, SK USA: ID, OR, WA - Adventive

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Acupalpus