Amara angustata (Say, 1823)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 600

Amara angustata (Say, 1823)

Feronia angustata Say, 1823a: 36. Type locality: "Indep[e]nd[e]nce [Buchanan County], Iowa" (neotype label). Neotype (♀), designated by Lindroth and Freitag (1969: 345), in MCZ [# 33027]. Note. "on the Missouri" was the area originally cited by Say (1823a: 37).

Amara indistincta Haldeman, 1843b: 300. Type locality: "Easton, P[ennsylvani]a" (neotype label). Neotype (♂), designated by Hieke (2000: 49), in CNC [# 23535]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1855: 350).

Distribution.

This species ranges from southern Quebec to southeastern British Columbia, south to southeastern Wyoming, southeastern Texas (Fort Bend and Harris Counties, Brian Raber pers. comm. 2010), east-central Louisiana (West Feliciana Parish, Igor M. Sokolov pers. comm. 2009), southern Mississippi (Hinds County, Drew A. Hildebrandt pers. comm. 2010), northern Alabama (Lawrence County, UASM), and South Carolina (Hieke 2000: 49-51). The records from "St. Louis, Montana" and "Cleveland, Oregon" listed by Hieke (2000: 51) refers to Missouri and Ohio respectively. The records from "New Brunswick" and "Prince Edward Island" (Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 199) refer to other species; that from west-central Colorado (Wickham 1902: 237) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: BC, MB, ON, QC, SK USA: AL, CT, DC, DE, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, MS, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, SC, SD, TN, TX, VA, VT, WI, WV, WY [CO]