Brachinus quadripennis Dejean, 1825

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 484-485

Brachinus quadripennis Dejean, 1825

Brachinus quadripennis Dejean, 1825: 316. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to «Florida» by Lindroth (1969a: 1101), herein to Gainesville, Alachua County (see Erwin 1970a: 103). Lectotype (♀), designated by Erwin (1970a: 99), in MHNP.

Brachinus stygicornis Say, 1830b: (1) [3]. Type locality: "South Bend [Cass County], Neb[raska]" (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 350), in MCZ [# 32997]. Synonymy established by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 350). Note. "Engineer Cantonment [= winter quarter along the west bank of the Missouri River north of modern Omaha, Nebraska] near Council Bluff, Missouri [Territory]" was the area originally cited by Say (1830b: (1) [3]).

Brachinus tschernikhii Mannerheim, 1843: 184. Type locality: «California» (original citation). Syntype(s) probably lost (Erwin 1965: 13). Synonymy established by Lindroth (1969a: 1102) based on Erwin’s (1969c) thesis. Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Egor [Georgii] Leont’evich Tschernikh [Chernykh] [ca. 1813-1843], agriculturist at Fort Ross and also a successful beetle collector in Alaska and California. Tschernikh was in charge of one of the ranch, the Tschernikh Ranch, located five miles north of Bodega Bay (near present-day Freestone). Along with Vosnesensky, naturalist and curator at the Zoological Museum of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Saint Petersburg, he was the first to climb Mount Saint Helena in Napa County in June 1841.

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from Massachusetts to south-central British Columbia, south to southern California along the Pacific Coast, north-central Utah, central Kansas, southeastern Texas, southern Mississippi (George and Wilkinson Counties, Drew A. Hildebrandt pers. comm. 2008), and southern Florida [see Erwin 1970a: Fig. 251]. At least one specimen simply labeled from Arizona is known (Erwin 1970a: 101); the record from southwestern New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 160, as Brachinus tschernikhii ) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, MB, ON, SK USA: AL, AR, CA, FL, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, LA, MA, MI, MN, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, WA, WI [AZ, NM]