Lebia cyanipennis Dejean, 1831

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 822

Lebia cyanipennis Dejean, 1831

Lebia cyanipennis Dejean, 1831: 385. Type locality: «Californie» (original citation), restricted to "San Diego [San Diego County]" by Lindroth (1969a: 1026). Holotype [by monotypy] in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 22).

Lebia ruficollis LeConte, 1851: 178. Type locality: "San Diego [San Diego County, California]" (original citation). Two syntypes in MCZ [# 68] and at least one in MHNP (collection Chaudoir). Synonymy established by Casey (1920: 251), confirmed by Madge (1967: 170).

Lebia montana G.H. Horn, 1885a: 131. Type locality: «Montana» (original citation). Two syntypes in MCZ [# 34503]. Synonymy established by Madge (1967: 176).

Lebia barbarae Casey, 1920: 242. Type locality: "S[an]ta Barbara [Santa Barbara County], California" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 47637]. Synonymy established by Madge (1967: 176).

Lebia melaena Hatch, 1953: 152. Type locality: "Pullman [Whitman County], Wash[ington]" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in USNM. Synonymy established by Madge (1967: 176).

Distribution.

This species ranges from southern Saskatchewan to south-central British Columbia, south to southern California along the Mexican border and northern New Mexico [see Madge 1967: Fig. 129]. At least one specimen is known from “Texas” (Madge 1967: 177). The record from "North Dakota" (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 276) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, SK USA: AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY [ND, TX]