Scaphinotus snowi snowi (LeConte, 1881)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 158-159

Scaphinotus snowi snowi (LeConte, 1881)

Cychrus snowi LeConte [in LeConte and Horn], 1881: 74. Type locality: "Santa Fe cañon (7,000 feet), New Mexico" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in MCZ [# 613]. Etymology. The species name was proposed for Francis Huntington Snow [1840-1908], a teacher, minister, field naturalist, mineralogist, and eventually chancellor of the University of Kansas. In one expedition to Wallace County in Kansas, Snow collected several hundred specimens of Amblycheila cylindriformis , which at the time was extremely rare in collections, and sold many of them for as much as $25.00 each.

Scaphinotus snowi var. parkeri Van Dyke, 1938: 101. Type locality: "White M[oun]t[ain]s [Navajo County], Arizona" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in CAS [# 4679]. Synonymy established by Erwin et al. (1977: 4.6). Etymology. The subspecific name was proposed for Frank Henry Parker [1910-1984], an enthusiastic beetle collector, particularly of meloids and buprestids, in Arizona. Note. This taxon was listed as a junior synonym of the nominotypical subspecies of Scaphinotus snowi by Erwin et al. (1977: 4.6) and as a valid subspecies by Erwin (2007a: 162). Two of the three original specimens of this taxon were taken "in company with numerous more typical specimens" (Van Dyke 1938: 101) suggesting that they are probably simply aberrant specimens.

Distribution.

This subspecies is found in western New Mexico, eastern Arizona, southwestern Colorado, and southeastern Utah (Van Dyke 1938: 100).

Records.

USA: AZ, CO, NM, UT