Bembidion americanum Dejean, 1831

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 359

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scientific name	Bembidion americanum Dejean, 1831
status

Treatment

Bembidium americanum Dejean, 1831: 87. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), restricted to "W[est] Roxbury [Suffolk County], Mass[achusetts]" by Lindroth (1963b: 249). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 13).

Bembidion illini Casey, 1918: 15. Type locality: "Keokuk [Lee County], Iowa" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 115), in USNM [# 36811]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1963b: 249).

Distribution.

This species ranges from southern New Brunswick (Webster and Bousquet 2008: 16) to southwestern Wisconsin (Richland County, Peter W. Messer pers. comm. 2008), south to eastern Texas (Sabine County, Brian Raber pers. comm. 2010; Riley 2011) and central Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 18). The record from “Minnesota” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 126) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: NB, ON, QC USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV [MN]