Carabus maeander maeander Fischer von Waldheim, 1820

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 190-191

Carabus maeander maeander Fischer von Waldheim, 1820

Carabus maeander Fischer von Waldheim, 1820: plate 10. Type locality: "Sibiria, propre Nertschinsk" (Fischer von Waldheim 1822: 104). Syntype(s) in SMTD ( Grämer 1960: 96).

Carabus incompletus Fischer von Waldheim, 1828: 303. Type locality: "Kamtschatka [Russia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Breuning (1932: 411).

Carabus ehrenbergii Fischer von Waldheim, 1829b: 368. Type locality: "Kamtschatkae [Russia]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established, under the name Carabus incompletus Fischer von Waldheim, by Heyden (1879: 166).

Carabus lapilayi Laporte, 1834: 89. Type locality: "Terre-Neuve [= Newfoundland]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by LeConte (1866: 78). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Auguste Jean Marie Bachelot de la Pylaie (also spelled de Lapilaye) [1786-1856], French bota nist, explorer, and archaeologist. Bachelot de la Pylaie made two trips to Newfoundland and Saint-Pierre and Miquelon and published a flora (unfinished) of the region.

Carabus hudsonicus Motschulsky, 1866: 293. Type locality: «Hudson-Bay» (original citation). Lectotype [as holotype], designated by Kryzhanovskij (1968: 178), in ZMMU. Synonymy established with doubt by Horn (1870a: 70), confirmed by Kryzhanovskij (1968: 178).

Carabus maeander var. simoni Heyden, 1879: 166. Type locality: "Huds[on Bay]" (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Roeschke (1900: 70).

Carabus maeander var. excostatus Kraatz, 1880: 338. Type locality not stated. Holotype [by monotypy] location unknown (possibly in DEI). Synonymy established by Breuning (1932: 412).

Carabus lecontei Géhin, 1885: 26. Type locality: "Detroit [Wayne County, Michigan]" (original citation for Carabus [no] 3 of LeConte 1847: 444). Syntype(s) presumably lost. Synonymy established by Breuning (1932: 412). Note. This taxon was described by a bibliographic reference to a previously published description, that of Carabus [no] 3 of LeConte (1847: 444).

Carabus maeander atlanticus Lapouge, 1925: 191. Type locality: «Saint-Pierre-Miquelon» (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown (most probably destroyed). Synonymy established, under the name Carabus maeander n[atio] lapilayi Laporte, by Breuning (1932: 412).

Distribution.

This Holarctic subspecies ranges from western Siberia (Bousquet et al. 2003: 154) to the Bering Sea Coast and from Alaska (Lindroth 1961a: 36) to Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 23), south at least to northeastern New York (Powell 1977: 148), northern Iowa (Larsen et al. 2003: 292), and northern New Mexico (Brantley et al. 2003: 382; Sandoval County, UASM). The record from “Pennsylvania” (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 76) needs confirmation.

Records.

FRA: PM CAN: AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), NT, ON, PE, QC, SK USA: AK, CO, IA, IL, IN, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NM, NY, OH, SD, VT, WI [PA] - Holarctic

Note.

Two other subspecies of this species, Carabus maeander chejuensis Deuve from South Korea and Carabus maeander paludis Géhin from the Far East, Japan, and China, are found in Asia. Deuve (2004: 183) also retained Carabus lapilayi Laporte as a valid subspecies.