Anisodactylus merula (Germar, 1824)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 649-650

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scientific name

Anisodactylus merula (Germar, 1824)
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Anisodactylus merula (Germar, 1824)

Harpalus merula Germar, 1824: 24. Type locality: «Kentucky» (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1968: 845), in MHNP.

Anisodactylus pinguis LeConte, 1847: 382. Type locality: "ad Rocky Mountains" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Noonan (1973: 368), in MCZ [# 5950]. Synonymy established by Melsheimer (1853: 23), confirmed by Lindroth (1968: 845).

Anisodactylus crassus LeConte, 1847: 382. Type locality: "NovEboraci [= New York]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Noonan (1973: 368), in MCZ [# 5951]. Synonymy established by Melsheimer (1853: 23), confirmed by Lindroth (1968: 845).

Anisodactylus gravidus LeConte, 1847: 383. Type locality: "NovEboraci [= New York]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Noonan (1973: 368), in MCZ [# 5949]. Synonymy established by Melsheimer (1853: 9), confirmed by Lindroth (1968: 845).

Triplectrus aethiops Casey, 1914: 175. Type locality: "Austin and Waco, Texas" (original citation), restricted to "Austin [Travis County]" by Casey (1924: 128). Lectotype (♀), designated by Noonan (1973: 369), in USNM [# 47932]. Synonymy established by Noonan (1973: 369).

Triplectrus marginatus Casey, 1924: 126. Type locality: "Grayling, near Bay City [Bay County], Michigan" (original citation). Lectotype [as holotype] (♂), designated by Noonan (1973: 369), in USNM [# 47934]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 845).

Triplectrus wolcotti Casey, 1924: 127. Type locality: "near Chicago [Cook County], Illinois" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 141), in USNM [# 47930]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 845). Etymology. The specific name honors Albert Burk Wolcott [1869-1950] who worked for a long time as preparator of educational exhibits for the public schools of Chicago. An amateur coleopterist, Wolcott specialized in Cleridae . His clerid collection and library were deposited at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago in 1946.

Triplectrus sulcipennis Casey, 1924: 128. Type locality: "Waco [McLennan County], Texas" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Noonan (1973: 369), in USNM [# 47931]. Synonymy established by Noonan (1973: 369).

Triplectrus kempi Casey, 1924: 130. Type locality: "Lake George [Warren County], New York" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 141), in USNM [# 47940]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1968: 845). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for James Furman Kemp [1859-1926], distinguished professor of geology at Columbia University.

Distribution.

This eastern species ranges from southern Quebec to west-central Minnesota, north to southwestern Manitoba (Lindroth 1968: 846), south to southeastern Texas and the Florida Keys [see Noonan 1973: Fig. 161]. One specimen labeled from Anaheim, California is known. The records from “Arizona” and "North Dakota" (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 217) need confirmation.

Records.

CAN: MB, ON, QC USA: AL, AR, CO, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI [AZ, CA, ND]

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Anisodactylus

Loc

Anisodactylus merula (Germar, 1824)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Triplectrus marginatus

Casey 1924
1924
Loc

Triplectrus wolcotti

Casey 1924
1924
Loc

Triplectrus sulcipennis

Casey 1924
1924
Loc

Triplectrus kempi

Casey 1924
1924
Loc

Triplectrus aethiops

Casey 1914
1914
Loc

Anisodactylus pinguis

LeConte 1847
1847
Loc

Harpalus merula

Germar 1824
1824
Loc

Cleridae

Latreille 1802
1802