Blethisa julii LeConte, 1863

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 262

Blethisa julii LeConte, 1863

Blethisa julii LeConte, 1863c: 2. Type locality: "Nova Scotia" (original citation), herein restricted to Cheticamp, Cape Breton Island (see Lindroth 1954c: 300). Syntype(s) in MCZ [# 5452]. Etymology. This species was named after Julius Ulke [1833-1910], brother of Henry Ulke (see Bembidion ulkei ), a photographer and also a beetle collector. In the 1860s, Julius and Henry lived on Tenth Street in Washington across the Ford’s Theater and had a portrait studio on Pennsylvania Avenue. Julius took the historic photograph of the room in which Abraham Lincoln died on 15 April 1865 a few minutes after the president’s body was removed.

Distribution.

The range of this species extends from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 30) to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta (Lindroth 1961a: 107-108), south to northern New York and New England (Lindroth 1961a: 107) [see Morgan et al. 1986: Fig. 3]. The record from Michigan (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 86), based on a specimen labeled from Lake Superior in CMNH, needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, QC, SK USA: ME, NH, NY, VT [MI]