Calosoma sayi Dejean, 1826

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 171

Calosoma sayi Dejean, 1826

Calosoma sayi Dejean, 1826: 198. Type locality: «Amérique septentrionale" (original citation), herein restricted to Norfolk, Virginia (see Casey 1897: 344, as Calosoma sayi virginica ). Lectotype (♀), designated by Deuve (1978: 246), in MHNP. Etymology. The specific name was proposed in honor of Thomas Say [1787-1834], American naturalist and one of the founders of the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia. Say participated in the geological expedition to the off-shore islands of Georgia and Florida (then a Spanish colony) in 1818, in Major Long’s expedition to the Rocky Mountains and the tributaries of the Missouri River in 1819 and 1820, and in Long’s expedition to the headwaters of the Mississippi River in 1823. He lived the last eight years of his life in New Harmony, Indiana, in Robert Owen’s utopian society experiment where he secretly married Lucy Way Sistare [1801-1886], an artist who illustrated some of her husband’s works.

Calosoma armata Laporte, 1835: 156. Type locality: «Mexique» (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Erwin (1991a: 20), in MHNP. Synonymy established by Breuning (1927: 192).

Calosoma sayi var. abdominale Géhin, 1885: 58. Type locality: «Mexique» (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Erwin (1991a: 20), in MHNP. Synonymy established, under the name Calosoma alternans var. armatum Laporte, by Roeschke (1900: 71).

Calosoma sayi virginica Casey, 1897: 344. Type locality: "Norfolk, V[irgini]a" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Erwin (1991a: 20), in USNM [# 37092]. Synonymy established by Roeschke (1900: 71).

Calosoma alternans var. cuprascens Roeschke, 1900: 71. Type locality not stated. Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) location unknown. Synonymy established by Jeannel (1940: 94).

Distribution.

This species ranges from Long Island, New York (Notman 1928: 209) to “Iowa” (Burgess and Collins 1917: 62), south to Guatemala (Gidaspow 1963: 301) and southern Florida except for the Keys (Peck and Thomas 1998: 15), west along southern United States to “California” (Burgess and Collins 1917: 62); also known from the Greater Antilles as far south as Puerto Rico (Gidaspow 1963: 301). The records from “Minnesota,” "North Dakota," and “Wisconsin” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 70) are probably in error or based on strays.

Records.

USA: AL, AR, AZ, CA, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MO, MS, NC, NJ, NY, OH, OK, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA - Cuba, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Puerto Rico