Dromius piceus Dejean, 1831

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 805

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scientific name

Dromius piceus Dejean, 1831
status

 

Dromius piceus Dejean, 1831

Dromius piceus Dejean, 1831: 353. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to "Bethel [Oxford County], Maine" by Lindroth (1969a: 1041). Holotype [by monotypy] in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 24).

Dromius quadricollis LeConte, 1859a: 82. Type locality: "Puget Sound [Washington]" (original citation). One syntype in MCZ [# 5812]. Synonymy established by Horn (1882: 160).

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from Cape Breton Island (Bousquet 1987d: 107) to Vancouver Island (Lindroth 1969a: 1043), south to southern California (Fall 1901a: 48; MCZ), the states of Sonora (CNC) and Durango (CNC) in Mexico, and the Florida Panhandle (Peck and Thomas 1998: 24). Fossil remnants, undated but believed to be younger than 3 million years B.P., have been unearthed in northwestern Yukon Territory (Elias and Matthews 2002: 914).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC (VCI), MB, NB, NS (CBI), ON, PE, QC, SK USA: AL, AR, AZ, CA, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MS, MT, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY - Mexico

Note.

Lindroth (1969a: 1042-1043) studied superficially the structural variation in this species and concluded there was a single species but that the specimens west of the Rockies "may very well be treated" as a subspecies for which the name Dromius quadricollis LeConte, 1859 is available. Until a detailed study of the variation is done, I prefer not to recognize subspecies for this taxon.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Dromius

Loc

Dromius piceus Dejean, 1831

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Dromius quadricollis

LeConte 1859
1859
Loc

Dromius piceus

Dejean 1831
1831