Badister flavipes flavipes LeConte, 1853

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 633-634

Badister flavipes flavipes LeConte, 1853

Badister flavipes LeConte, 1853c: 388. Type locality: «Louisiana» (original citation). Two syntypes [2 originally cited] in MCZ [# 5725].

Europhilus iridipennis Motschulsky, 1865: 321. Type locality: "environs de la nouvelle Orléans [Orleans Parish, Louisiana]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Liebherr (1991b: 120), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Liebherr (1991b: 120).

Badister laticeps Blatchley, 1910: 118. Type locality: "Perry County [Indiana]" (original citation for the lectotype). Lectotype (♀), designated by Blatchley (1930: 33), in PURC. New synonymy.

Badister flavicornis Casey, 1920: 208. Type locality: "Cedar Rapids [Linn County], Iowa" (original citation). One syntype in USNM [# 47368]. Synonymy established, under the name Badister flavipes laticeps Blatchley, by Ball (1959: 211).

Distribution.

This subspecies ranges from south-central New York (Ball 1959: 213) to southeastern Nebraska (Lancaster County, UASM), including southern Wisconsin (Rauterberg 1885: 17; Purrington et al. 2002: 201), south to southern Texas (Gonzales County, CMNH; Brazoria County, Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2008) and southern Florida (Peck and Thomas 1998: 21); also recorded from the Bahamas (Darlington 1953: 8).

Records.

USA: AR, DC, FL, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, KY, LA, MD, MI, MO, MS, NE, NY, OH, PA, TN, TX, WI - Bahamas.

Note.

Ball (1959) recognized three subspecies within this taxon, two of them occurring north of Mexico. Because the differences between the two forms are largely based on color and that intermediate specimens are known from Louisiana (Ball 1959: 210), I prefer not to recognize the color forms as distinct subspecies. Badister flavipes mexicanus Van Dyke is endemic to Mexico.