Agonum cyclifer (Bates, 1884)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 760

Agonum cyclifer (Bates, 1884)

Anchomenus cyclifer Bates, 1884: 281. Type locality: "near the city, Mexico" (original citation). One syntype in MHNP (Liebherr 1994: 22). Note. This species-group name may be either a noun in apposition or an adjective in the masculine gender (ICZN 1999: Example for Article 31.2.2). It was treated as an adjective (e.g., Agonum cycliferum ) by Csiki (1931: 847), Blackwelder (1944: 41) and Liebherr (1991a: 120) and as a noun in apposition (e.g., Agonum cyclifer ) by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 256), Liebherr (1994: 13) and Lorenz (2005: 410). When the evidence of usage is not decisive as in this case, the name is to be treated as a noun in apposition (Article 31.2.2).

Platynus arizonensis G.H. Horn, 1892c: 42. Type locality: "Camp Grant [Pinal County], Arizona" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Liebherr (1991a: 120), in MCZ [# 34498]. Synonymy established by Liebherr (1991a: 120). Note. The type locality probably refers to the “old” Camp Grant located in eastern Pinal County near Winkelman, where Horn collected while serving as a surgeon with the California Volunteers, rather than the “new” Camp Grant located in Graham County. The “old” Camp Grant was in operation from 1859 to 1872 and the scene of the infamous Camp Grant Massacre of 1871.

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from southeastern Arizona to the Rio Grande drainage in south-central Texas, north to southeastern Colorado (Michels et al. 2008; Las Animas County, Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2008), south to the Federal District of Mexico [see Liebherr 1994: Fig. 28].

Records.

USA: AZ, CO, NM, TX - Mexico