Catopocerus applachianus Peck, 1975

Peck, Stewart B. & Cook, Joyce, 2011, Systematics, distributions and bionomics of the Catopocerini (eyeless soil fungivore beetles) of North America (Coleoptera: Leiodidae: Catopocerinae) 3077, Zootaxa 3077 (1), pp. 1-118 : 14

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3077.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5243779
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scientific name	Catopocerus applachianus Peck, 1975
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Catopocerus applachianus Peck 1975: 387 . Holotype in MCZC. Type locality: Balsam Gap, Mt. Mitchell , Yancy County, North Carolina.

Material examined. No new material is available.

Distribution. North American distribution: United States. AL, IL, KY, NC, TN, VA, WV.

The species has a roughly linear range of 772 km along the Appalachian mountains from Madison County, northern Alabama, northeastward to Pocahontas County , West Virginia. One collection is known from the Cumberland Plateau of Kentucky and one in the Shawnee Hills of southern Illinois. A tentatively associated female from St. Louis (mentioned in Peck 1975), in eastern Missouri, has proved to be Pinodytes newtoni n. sp., which is described below .