Pseudaptinus lecontei (Dejean, 1831)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 837

Pseudaptinus lecontei (Dejean, 1831)

Diaphorus lecontei Dejean, 1831: 301. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), herein restricted to Florence, Florence County, South Carolina (see Ciegler 2000: 127). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 22). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Major John Eatton LeConte [1784-1860] who devoted most of his time after his early retirement from the army to the education of his only child, John Lawrence LeConte [1825-1883]. Himself a naturalist, the Major was interested in botany, Lepidoptera , and Coleoptera . In 1845 he published the first taxonomic revision of the North American Histeridae for which some of the nice plates were drew by his son. To my knowledge, this is the first revision of a North American beetle family ever published. The LeContes came from a wealthy and prominent family in France of Huguenot ancestry. They fled to the United States to escape the intolerance of Louis XIV and the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (Mallis 1971: 243).

Distribution.

This Coastal Plain species ranges from southeastern Virginia (Davidson 1995: 18) to central Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 25), west to southeastern Texas (Cameron County, USNM).

Records.

USA: AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TX, VA