Patrobus stygicus Chaudoir, 1872

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 466

Patrobus stygicus Chaudoir, 1872

Patrobus stygicus Chaudoir, 1872a: 46. Type locality: «côte méridionale de Terre-Neuve" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in MHNP.

Distribution.

This species ranges from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 83) to the Chukchi Sea coast in northwestern Alaska (Lindroth 1961a: 183), south to north-central Washington (Pohl 1998: 690), northern Minnesota (Clearwater and Lake Counties, CNC), the upper peninsula of Michigan (Escanaba, MCZ), and north-central Maine (Larochelle and Larivière 1990a: 28; Piscataquis County, CNC). The species is also known from the Far East (Zamotajlov 2003b: 285). Fossil remnants, dated between 10,400 and 15,400 years B.P., have been unearthed in Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia (Miller 1997: 250) and central Iowa (Schwert 1992: 76); others from a Plio-Pleistocene sequence have been found in northwestern Greenland ( Böcher 1995: 23).

Records.

CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NF, NT, ON, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, ME, MI, MN, WA - Holarctic