Agonum affine Kirby, 1837

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 764-765

Agonum affine Kirby, 1837

Agonum affine Kirby, 1837: 27 [primary homonym of Agonum affine Stephens, 1828]. Type locality: northern parts of British America (inferred from title of the book), restricted to "Edmonton, Al[ber]ta" by Lindroth (1966: 603). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in BMNH (Lindroth 1953b: 171). Note. Agonum affine Kirby, 1837 is a primary homonym of Agonum affine Stephens, 1828 (a junior synonym of Agonum thoreyi thoreyi Dejean, 1828). Although Agonum affine Stephens has not been used as a valid name after 1899, I am unable to meet the condition of Article 23.9.1.2 of the ICZN (1999) in order to qualify Agonum affine Stephens of nomen oblitum and Agonum affine Kirby of nomen protectum. Nevertheless, I believe that the name Agonum affine Kirby should be maintained for this species until the case is submitted to the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature.

Platynus carbo LeConte, 1850: 205. Type locality: Lake Superior (inferred from title of the paper), cited from the "northern shore of Lake Superior" by LeConte (1854b: 49). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) in MCZ [# 5767]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1953b: 171).

Agonothorax planipennis Motschulsky, 1850a: 68 [nomen dubium]. Type locality: "Sitka [Alaska]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (possibly in ZMMU though not listed in Keleinikova 1976). Synonymy established with doubt by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 11). Note. This name was listed as " Agonothorax flavipennis " by Motschulsky (1869: 21). Horn (in Wickham 1902: 239) stated that this name "is probably a variety of P[latynus] fossiger Dej." If this is correct, then the type locality reported by Motschulsky is in error.

Distribution.

This species ranges from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 123, as Agonum carbo ) to central Alaska (Lindroth 1966: 605), south to southern Oregon (Westcott et al. 2006: 6), the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 159), northern Indiana (Blatchley 1910: 130; Wolcott and Montgomery 1933: 127), southwestern Pennsylvania (Westmoreland County, William L. Krinsky pers. comm. 2012) and the District of Columbia (Ulke 1902: 7, as Platynus carbo ).

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC (VCI), LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK, YT USA: AK, CO, CT, DC, IA, ID, IL, IN, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, OR, PA, RI, VT, WA, WI, WY