Badister reflexus LeConte, 1880

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 635-636

Badister reflexus LeConte, 1880

Badister reflexus LeConte, 1880b: 166. Type locality: "New York, Michigan, Louisiana" (original citation), restricted to "New York" by Ball (1959: 222). Four syntypes in MCZ [# 5727].

Badister seclusus Blatchley, 1922: 12. Type locality: "Dunedin [Pinellas County], Fl[orid]a" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Blatchley (1930: 45), in PURC. Synonymy established by Ball (1959: 222).

Distribution.

This species is known from Rhode Island (Sikes and Webster 2005: 315) to southern Wisconsin (Messer 2010: 39), including southernmost Ontario (Lindroth 1969a: 966, probably only as strays), south to the Rio Grande in southeastern Texas (Ball 1992a: 376), the Florida Keys, and the Greater Antilles (Ball 1992a: 376-377); it is also known from a single specimen, possibly a stray, collected in southwestern New Brunswick (Webster and Bousquet 2008: 21) and from Quintana Roo in the Yucatán Peninsula (Ball 1992a: 376). The record from “Quebec” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 213) is in error.

Records.

CAN: NB, ON USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, LA, MA, MD, MI, MS, NC, NE, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, RI, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV - Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico

Note.

In the Zoological Record for the year 1880 this species is registered (page 22) under the name " Badister albescens ."