Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 686

Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828

Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828a: 163. Type locality: "near Dover [United Kingdom]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1968: 757), in BMNH.

Distribution.

This Palaearctic species is adventive in North America where it is known from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia (Majka et al. 2006: 606) to eastern Iowa (Linn County, Doug A. Veal pers. comm. 2009), south to southern Pennsylvania [see Larochelle and Larivière 1989b: Fig. 1] and New Jersey (Steffens and Davidson 1979: 64). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Long Island, New York, in 1954 (Dietrich 1958: 46).

Records.

CAN: NB, NS, ON, PE, QC USA: CT, IA, IL, MA, ME, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT, WI - Adventive