Carabus forreri forreri Bates, 1882

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 193

Carabus forreri forreri Bates, 1882

Carabus forreri Bates, 1882b: 320. Type locality: "Ciudad, Durango, Mexico" (original citation). Syntype(s) in MHNP ( Toulgoët 1975: 232). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Alfonse Forrer [1836-1899], a collector of natural history objects. Born in London, Forrer moved to the United States while a young man and, at the close of the civil war, accepted a commission from the British Museum to collect zoological material along the west coast of the United States and Mexico. He supplied many other European museums with his material and also collected for Salvin and Godman. In July 1900, his personal collection, consisting mainly of fishes, birds, and insects, was offered for sale for $500 by his widow.

Carabus townsendi Casey, 1905: 160. Type locality: "Meadow Valley (7,300 feet), six miles south of Colonia Garcia, Chihuahua, Mexico, in the Sierra Madre Mountains" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] in USNM. Synonymy established by Breuning (1933b: 897). Etymology. This taxon was named after the American entomologist Charles Henry Tyler Townsend [1863-1944] who published on many subjects but is primarily known for his studies on Sarcophagidae and Tachinidae . Townsend worked for many years in South America and made significant contributions in the fields of agricultural and medical entomology. At the time of his death he was living in a suburb of São Paulo where he founded his own publishing company.

Distribution.

This species is known from southeastern Arizona and the state of Durango in Mexico (Van Dyke 1945a: 118-119).

Records.

USA: AZ - Mexico

Note.

Carabus forreri willi Deuve is known from Chihuahua in Mexico.