Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Author Bousquet, Yves Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bousquety1@yahoo.com text ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 1313-2970-245-1 FFFF52503A0AFF882450FFB66D45FF8E 578462 Nebria nivalis nivalis (Paykull, 1790) Carabus nivalis Paykull, 1790: 52. Type locality: "Lapponiae Lulensis [= Lulea , Norrbotten County, Sweden]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Kavanaugh (1979a: 111), in NRSS. Nebria bifaria Mannerheim, 1853: 120. Type locality: "insula St. Pauli [Alaska]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Kavanaugh (1979a: 112), in ZILR. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1961a: 81). Nebria femoralis Motschulsky, 1859b: 541 [primary homonym of Nebria femoralis Chaudoir, 1843]. Type locality: region of Yakutsk, east-central Siberia, Russia (inferred from title of the paper). Lectotype, designated by Shilenkov (1975: 839), in ZILR. Synonymy established by Jeannel (1937b: 4). Nebria molbis Motschulsky, 1866: 274. Type locality: "Amerique russe" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Kavanaugh (1979a: 114), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1961a: 82). Nebria femorata Motschulsky, 1866: 275. Type locality: "Sib[eria] bor[eali] Jakutzk [= Yakutsk, Yakutia, Siberia, Russia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in ZILR). Synonymy established by Baenninger (1949: 144). Note. The name Nebria femorata Motschulsky has been interpreted as a replacement name for Nebria femoralis Motschulsky, 1859 by some authors (e.g., Ledoux and Roux 2005: 112). However, there is no indication in Motschulsky (1866) that he proposed the name as a replacement name. The footnote on the same page as the description of femorata indicates that Motschulsky (1866: 275) considered Nebria femoralis Chaudoir as belonging to a different genus, Alpaeus . Moreover in the catalogue of his new genera and species described, Motschulsky (1869: 26) listed his Nebria femoralis and Nebria femorata as different taxa. Distribution. This Holarctic subspecies is known from northern Europe to the Bering Sea Coast ( Farkac and Janata 2003: 88), and from the Arctic Plains in Alaska to Baffin Island and the western edge of the Ungava Bay in northern Quebec (Kavanaugh 1978: 779-782). Records. CAN : BC, NT, QC, YT USA : AK - Holarctic Note. Ledoux and Roux (2005: 112) retained Nebria bifaria Mannerheim, 1853 as a valid subspecies of Nebria nivalis .