Agonum affine Agonum affine Agonum affine Agonum affine Agonum thoreyi thoreyi Agonum affine Agonum affine Agonum affine Agonum affine Platynus carbo Agonothorax planipennis Agonothorax flavipennis Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet, Yves ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 65SSV DDC1D163-89D9-4A98-2927-92D05640931F Kirby, 1837 Kirby 1837 Insecta Carabidae Agonum GBIF Animalia Agonum affine Coleoptera 763 764 Arthropoda species affine   Agonum affineKirby, 1837: 27 [primary homonym of  Agonum affineStephens, 1828]. Type locality: northern parts of British America (inferred from title of the book), restricted to "Edmonton, Al[ber]ta" by Lindroth (1966: 603). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in BMNH (Lindroth 1953b: 171). Note.  Agonum affineKirby, 1837 is a primary homonym of  Agonum affineStephens, 1828 (a junior synonym of  Agonum thoreyi thoreyiDejean, 1828). Although  Agonum affineStephens has not been used as a valid name after 1899, I am unable to meet the condition of Article 23.9.1.2 of the ICZN (1999) in order to qualify  Agonum affineStephens of nomen oblitumand  Agonum affineKirby of nomen protectum. Nevertheless, I believe that the name  Agonum affineKirby should be maintained for this species until the case is submitted to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.  Platynus carboLeConte, 1850: 205. Type locality: Lake Superior (inferred from title of the paper), cited from the "northern shore of Lake Superior" by LeConte (1854b: 49). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in MCZ [# 5767]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1953b: 171).  Agonothorax planipennisMotschulsky, 1850a: 68 [ nomen dubium]. Type locality: "Sitka [Alaska]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in ZMMU though not listed in Keleinikova 1976). Synonymy established with doubt by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 11). Note. This name was listed as "  Agonothorax flavipennis" by Motschulsky (1869: 21). Horn (in Wickham 1902: 239) stated that thisname "is probably a variety of P[latynus] fossigerDej." If this is correct, then the type locality reported by Motschulsky is in error.  Distribution. This species ranges from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 123, as  Agonum carbo) to central Alaska (Lindroth 1966: 605), south to southern Oregon (Westcott et al. 2006: 6), the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 159), northern Indiana (Blatchley 1910: 130; Wolcott and Montgomery 1933: 127), southwestern Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County, William L. Krinsky pers. comm. 2012) and the District of Columbia (Ulke 1902: 7, as  Platynus carbo).  Records.  FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC (VCI), LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, CO, CT, DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA, WI, WY