Myas cyanescens Dejean, 1828

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 503

Myas cyanescens Dejean, 1828

Myas cyanescens Dejean, 1828: 425. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to "M[oun]t Toby [Franklin County], Mass[achusetts]" by Lindroth (1966: 445). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 14).

Myas foveatus LeConte, 1847: 355. Type locality: "NovEboraci [= New York]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Bousquet (1999: 91), in MCZ [# 5599]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1869b: 249), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 14).

Neomyas lindrothi Allen, 1980: 20. Type locality: "Graybeard Mountain, North Carolina" (original citation). Holotype (♂) location unknown (missing in AMNH, Richard L. Hoffman pers. comm. 2003). New synonymy. Note. Allen (1980) established Neomyas lindrothi exclusively on the presence of a distinct scale group on the right lateral surface of the endophallus; this group of scales being absent in Myas cyanescens . In my opinion, this character alone is probably not of specific nature considering among others that the endophallic scales are extremely variable in members of Myas cyanescens as noted by Allen (1980: 24) himself.

Distribution.

This species is found from "Nova Scotia" (Larochelle and Larivière 1990a: 29) to northwestern Minnesota (Allen 1980: 24), south to northern Alabama ( Löding 1945: 15) and Georgia (Fattig 1949: 21, as Myas foveatus ). A specimen simply labeled from Texas is known (Allen 1980: 26).

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, ON, QC USA: AL, CT, GA, IA, IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV [TX]