Bembidion nigrum Say, 1823

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 349

Bembidion nigrum Say, 1823

Bembidium niger Say, 1823a: 85. Type locality: "Rumney [Grafton County], N[ew] H[ampshire]" (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 336), in MCZ [# 33070].

Bembidion nigrum facile Casey, 1918: 48. Type locality: «Illinois» (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 118), in USNM [# 36875]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1963b: 301).

Bembidion morosum Casey, 1918: 49. Type locality: «Virginia» (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 118), in USNM [# 36876]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1963b: 301).

Distribution.

The range of this eastern species extends from Cape Breton Island (Lindroth 1954c: 302) to eastern South Dakota (Kirk and Balsbaugh 1975: 17), south to east-central Louisiana (West Feliciana Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009), southwestern Mississippi (Drew A. Hildebrandt pers. comm. 2007), and northern Georgia (Fattig 1949: 17). The record from “Kansas” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 134) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: NB, NS (CBI), ON, PE, QC USA: AL, AR, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MS, NC, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV [KS]