Brachinus cyanipennis Say, 1823

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 480

Brachinus cyanipennis Say, 1823

Brachinus cyanipennis Say, 1823b: 143. Type locality: "Ames [Story County], Iowa" (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 350), in MCZ [# 32998]. Note. "Near Engineer Cantonment [winter quarter along the west bank of the Missouri River north of modern Omaha, Nebraska], Missouri [Territory]" was the area originally cited by Say (1823b: 144).

Brachinus cephalotes Dejean, 1825: 317. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Erwin (1970a: 127), in MHNP. Synonymy established by Chaudoir (1868b: 297), confirmed by Erwin (1970a: 127).

Brachinus rejectus LeConte, 1863a: 525. Type locality: "middle and western states; Kansas" (original citation), restricted to «Kansas» by Lindroth (1969a: 1103). Lectotype (♀), designated by Erwin (1970a: 127), in MCZ [# 5843]. Synonymy established by Chaudoir (1868b: 297), confirmed by Erwin (1970a: 127).

Distribution.

This species ranges from Cumberland County in Nova Scotia (Majka and Gilhen 2008: 1) to southern Manitoba, south to eastern Texas, northwestern Louisiana (Natchitoches Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009), southern Alabama, northwestern South Carolina (Ciegler 2000: 35), and Virginia along the east coast [see Erwin 1970a: Fig. 330]. The species is also recorded from an unspecified locality in New Mexico (Erwin 1970a: 128). The records from “Georgia” (J.E. LeConte 1849: 25, as Brachinus cephalotes ) and Enterprise in Florida (Castle and Laurent 1896: 303) need confirmation.

Records.

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