Carabus chamissonis Fischer von Waldheim, 1820

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 188-189

Carabus chamissonis Fischer von Waldheim, 1820

Carabus chamissonis Fischer von Waldheim, 1820: plate 7. Type locality: «île d’Ounalachka [Alaska]" (Fischer von Waldheim 1822: 89). Syntype(s) in ZMH (collection Mannerheim) (Silfverberg 1987: 14), SMTD ( Grämer 1960: 98), and probably also in ZMMU (collection Eschscholtz). Etymology. This species was named after the German poet Adelbert Loginovich von Chamisso [1781-1838], who served as botanist on the first scientific voyage around the world, 1815-1818, under the command of Otto Evstaf’evich von Kotzebue on the Russian ship Rurik.

Carabus brachyderus Wiedemann [in Wiedemann and Germar], 1821: 110. Type locality: "Unalaschka [Alaska]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in ZMUC). Synonymy established by Mannerheim (1843: 186).

Carabus groenlandicus Dejean, 1831: 554. Type locality: «côtes du Groenland" (original citation), which is incorrect (Lindroth 1955b: 12). Lectotype (♂), designated by Toulgoët (1975: 16), in MHNP. Synonymy established by LeConte (1863b: 3), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 12).

Carabus groenlandicus washingtoni Casey, 1920: 155. Type locality: "M[oun]t Washington [Coos County], New Hampshire" (original citation). Three syntypes [3 originally cited] in USNM [# 46058]. Synonymy established by Breuning (1932: 300).

Carabus rugosostrigatus Mandl, 1955: 237. Type locality: "Juldus [= Kaidu He, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China]" (original citation), which is incorrect (Deuve 1991: 51). Holotype (♀) in NHMW. Synonymy established by Deuve (1991: 51).

Distribution.

This species occurs from the Labrador coast to the Seward Peninsula in Alaska (Lindroth 1961a: 33-34), including the Aleutians and Kodiak Island, south to northern British Columbia (CNC); isolated on high mountains in Gaspé Peninsula (Quebec), New Hampshire (Lindroth 1961a: 34), and Maine (Mount Katahdin, CNC). Fossil remnants of this species, dated between about 16,700 and 21,500 years B.P., have been unearthed in southeastern Iowa (Baker et al. 1986: 96) and northeastern Illinois (Garry et al. 1990: 394).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, ME, NH