Stereocerus rubripes (Motschulsky, 1860)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 502

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Stereocerus rubripes (Motschulsky, 1860)
status

 

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Steroderus rubripes Motschulsky, 1860: 94. Type locality: «Sibérie arctique" (original citation), restricted to "Anadyr [Russia]" by Lindroth (1969a: 1119). One syntype in ZMMU (Lindroth 1969a: 1119).

Pterostichus kryzhanovskii Lindroth, 1966: 533. Type locality: "Atkasuk [= Atqasuk], Meade R[iver], Alaska" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in MCZ [# 33502]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1969a: 1119). Etymology. The specific name was proposed in honor of Oleg Leonidovich Kryzhanovskij [1918-1997], one of the leading Russian entomologists of his time. A veteran of World War II, Kryzhanovskij worked at the Zoological Institute of Saint Petersburg on taxonomy of various groups of beetles with a special interest in Carabidae and Histeridae . He was also known for his work on biogeography.

Distribution.

This Holarctic species ranges from the northern part of European Russia (Bousquet 2003d: 517) to the Arctic Slope in northern Alaska. The record from "Yukon Territory" (Ball and Currie 1997: 452) could not be confirmed.

Records.

USA: AK [YT] - Holarctic

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Stereocerus

Loc

Stereocerus rubripes (Motschulsky, 1860)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Pterostichus kryzhanovskii

Lindroth 1966
1966
Loc

Steroderus rubripes

Motschulsky 1860
1860
Loc

Histeridae

Gyllenhaal 1808
1808
Loc

Carabidae

Latreille 1802
1802