Oxypselaphus pusillus (LeConte, 1854)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 745-746

Oxypselaphus pusillus (LeConte, 1854)

Anchus pusillus LeConte, 1854b: 39. Type locality: "Massachusetts; Illinois" (original citation), restricted to «Mass[achusetts]» by Lindroth (1966: 633). Three syntypes in MCZ [# 5759].

Anchus puncticeps Casey, 1920: 2. Type locality: «Ontario» (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 130), in USNM [# 47452]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 633).

Distribution.

This species ranges from Cape Breton Island (Bousquet 1987a: 126) to the Okanagan river in south-central British Columbia (Lindroth 1966: 634), south to western Oregon (Hatch 1953: 138), northeastern Kansas (Popenoe 1878: 78), and northwestern South Carolina (Anderson County, CNC). The record from “Georgia” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 253) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, MB, NB, NS (CBI), ON, PE, QC, SK USA: CT, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, VA, VT, WA, WI [GA]