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 Badister neopulchellus Lindroth, 1954 Badister neopulchellus Lindroth, 1954b: 153. Type locality: "West Roxbury [Suffolk County], Massachusetts" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in MCZ [# 29071]. Distribution. This species ranges from Cape Breton Island to southwestern British Columbia, north to the Great Slave Lake in Northwest Territories (Lindroth 1969a: 959), south to south-central California (Ball 1992a: 375), northeastern Kansas (Popenoe 1878: 78, as Badister pulchellus ), and northeastern Georgia (Fattig 1949: 31, as Badister pulchellus ). Two specimens simply labeled "Tex" (MCZ) are known (Ball 1959: 196). Records. CAN : AB, BC, MB, NB, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK USA : CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, IA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, ME, MI, MN, MO, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, SD, UT, VT, WA, WI, WV, WY [TX] Figure 31. Badister neopulchellus Lindroth. This nicely colored licinine was first recognized by Carl Lindroth when he realized that the Badister pulchellus of authors included two species, this one which is transcontinental and relatively commonly collected and Badister pulchellus , a much rarer species restricted to the eastern parts of the continent. With the advent of molecular tools, there is little doubt that several of our carabid species will eventually be showed to be complexes of species that cannot be separately with confidence based on morphology alone.