Amblycheila picolominii Reiche, 1840

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 198

Amblycheila picolominii Reiche, 1840

Amblycheila picolominii Reiche, 1840: 560. Type locality: "port ou baie de Saint-Francisco, dans la Nouvelle-Californie, sous le 48e degré environ de latitude septentrionale" (original citation), which is incorrect. Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in MHNP (Horn 1904: 97). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for the collector of the type specimen, count Enea Silvio Vincenzo [Vincent] Piccolomini who spent ten years, "engaged in scientific pursuits," in Mexico and United States. Note. 1. Reiche originally used two different spellings for this species, picolominii (page 560) and piccolominii (plate 19). As far as I know, Reiche did not subsequently use the species name and nobody acted as "First Reviser." Therefore, I select " picolominii " as the correct original spelling since it is in prevailing usage. 2. George Horn (1893: 281) remarked that the specimens collected by " Picolomini " and sold by Richard Henri Dupont (born Richard Henry Puech) as found in California, which included the holotype of this species, were in fact collected "anywhere from western Texas to central Arizona."

Distribution.

This species, also known as the "Plateau Giant Tiger Beetle", occurs from the northern half of Arizona to western Texas, north to southwestern Colorado (Kippenhan 1994: 21) and southeastern Utah (Krell and Brookhart 2012: 110). The record from “Oklahoma” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 52) is in error.

Records.

USA: AZ, CO, NM, TX, UT