Badister neopulchellus Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet, Yves ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 KBRK A422883F-2B51-C35F-94A7-49C77713A605 Lindroth, 1954 Lindroth 1954 Insecta Carabidae Badister GBIF Animalia Badister neopulchellus Coleoptera 633 634 Arthropoda species neopulchellus   Badister neopulchellusLindroth, 1954b: 153. Type locality: "West Roxbury [Suffolk County], Massachusetts" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in MCZ [# 29071].  Distribution. This species ranges from Cape Breton Island to southwestern British Columbia, north to the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories (Lindroth 1969a: 959), south to south-central California (Ball 1992a: 375), northeastern Kansas (Popenoe 1878: 78, as  Badister pulchellus), and northeastern Georgia (Fattig 1949: 31, as  Badister pulchellus). Two specimens simply labeled "Tex"(MCZ) are known (Ball 1959: 196).  Records.  CAN: AB, BC, MB, NB, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK USA: CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY [TX]   Figure 31.  Badister neopulchellusLindroth. This nicely colored licinine was first recognized by Carl Lindroth when he realized that the  Badister pulchellusof authors included two species, this one which is transcontinental and relatively commonly collected and  Badister pulchellus, a much rarer species restricted to the eastern parts of the continent. With the advent of molecular tools, there is little doubt that several of our carabid species will eventually be showed to be complexes of species that cannot be separately with confidence based on morphology alone.