Acupalpus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1760)
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Acupalpus meridianus (Linnaeus, 1760)
Carabus meridianus Linnaeus, 1760: 221. Type locality: Sweden (inferred from title of the book). Three possible syntypes, two belonging to the present species, in LSL (Lindroth 1957b: 332).
Distribution.
This Palaearctic species is adventive in North America where it is known from the Quebec City area (Chantal 1971: 202) in the east and from south-central Saskatchewan (Ronald R. Hooper pers. comm. 2007) to Vancouver Island (Lindroth 1968: 930), including central Alberta (Pollock 1991a: 705), south to “Oregon” (Hatch 1953: 185) and northern Idaho (Hatten et al. 2007: 359) in the west. The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Seattle in 1931 (Hatch 1946: 77).
Records.
CAN: AB, BC (VCI), QC, SK USA: ID, OR, WA - Adventive
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