Elaphropus anceps (LeConte, 1848)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 438

Elaphropus anceps (LeConte, 1848)

Tachys anceps LeConte, 1848: 470. Type locality: "Rocky Mountains" (original citation), restricted to «Nebraska» by Erwin (1974a: 133). Lectotype (♀), designated by Erwin (1974a: 133) in MCZ [# 5583].

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from Cape Breton Island to southeastern Alberta, north to southern Northwest Territories (Lindroth 1966: 418-419), south to southeastern Arizona (Dajoz 2007: 21), northwestern Texas (Nolan County, CMNH), northwestern Louisiana (Caddo Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009), and Maryland (Clark et al. 2006: 1306). The records from "British Columbia," “Washington,” “Oregon,” “Idaho,” “Utah” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 150), based on specimens identified under this name in USNM, need confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, MB, NB, NS (CBI), NT, ON, QC, SK USA: AR, AZ, CO, CT, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MT, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV, WY [BC, ID, OR, UT, WA]

Note.

Lindroth (1966: 417) considered Elaphropus nebulosus (Chaudoir), Elaphropus vernicatus (Casey), and Elaphropus congener (Casey) as synonyms of this species. Erwin (1974a) treated Elaphropus nebulosus and Elaphropus congener as valid species and Elaphropus vernicatus as a synonym of Elaphropus unionis (Csiki).