Calleida purpurea (Say, 1823)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 831

Calleida purpurea (Say, 1823)

Cymindis purpureus Say, 1823a: 10. Type locality: «Neb[raska]» (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 349), in MCZ [# 33003]. Note. "the Missouri" was the area originally cited by Say (1823a: 10).

Calleida smaragdina Dejean, 1825: 225. Type locality: «Géorgie» (original citation). Two syntypes in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 24). Synonymy established by Horn (1882: 161), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 24).

Calleida cyanipennis Chaudoir, 1844: 467. Type locality: «Amérique» (original citation). Syntype(s) probably in MHNP. Synonymy established, under the name Calleida smaragdina Dejean, by LeConte (1869b: 248).

Distribution.

This species ranges from "New Hampshire" (Lindroth 1969a: 1062) to northeastern South Dakota (Kirk and Balsbaugh 1975: 38), north to southern Manitoba (Lindroth 1969a: 1062; Bousquet 1987a: 133), south to eastern Kansas (Popenoe 1877: 23), central Louisiana (Rapides Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009), and northern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 24). The records from Colorado (LeConte 1846b: 188; Snow 1877: 17) need confirmation.

Records.

CAN: MB USA: AL, CT, FL, GA, IA, IL, KS, LA, MA, MI, MO, MN, NC, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, SD, WI [CO]