Pterostichus menetriesii LeConte, 1873
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Pterostichus menetriesii LeConte, 1873
Pterostichus menetriesii LeConte, 1873a: 304. Type locality: «Cal[ifornia]» (lectotype label). Lectotype (♀), designated by Bousquet (1999: 175), in MCZ [# 34326]. Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Edouard Ménétriés [1802-1861], the leading Russian entomologist of his time. Born in France, Ménétriés worked at the Museum of the Jardin des Plantes under Cuvier and Latreille before acting as conservator of rarities at the Zoological Museum in the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Saint Petersburg. He described many North American beetles collected in Alaska and northern California by various Russian expeditions. His collection is in the Zoological Institute in Saint Petersburg.
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This species is found along the Coast Ranges in central California (Marin, San Mateo, and San Francisco Counties, Will and Gill 2008: 125, CNC). It was also reported from Santa Rosa Island in the Pacific Ocean (Fall 1901a: 44).
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USA: CA (CHI)
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Pterostichus menetriesii LeConte, 1873
Bousquet, Yves 2012 |
Pterostichus menetriesii
LeConte 1873 |