Carabus vietinghoffii vietinghoffii Adams, 1812

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Carabus vietinghoffii vietinghoffii Adams, 1812

Carabus vietinghoffii Adams, 1812: 170. Type locality: "ubi ducentis fere milliaribus ultra urbem Jakutzk, ad ripas fluvii Lenae [= about 200 “miles” pass the city of Yakutsk, on the banks of the Lena River], Sibiriae orientalis [Russia]" (original citation). Syntypes in SMTD ( Grämer 1960: 95). Etymology. The specific name was proposed for Baron de Vietinghoff [1767-1829], Latvian naturalist also named Christoph Burchard Scheel.

Carabus vietinghovi var. schtschegolewi Poppius, 1906a: 15. Type locality: "oberen Lena [Siberia, Russia]" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♀) location unknown. Synonymy established by Breuning (1926: 70).

Carabus vietinghoffi alaskanus Obydov, 1996: 85. Type locality: "Umiat, Alaska" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in Obydov’s collection (Moscow, Russia). Synonymy established by Lorenz (2005: 108).

Distribution.

This subspecies is found in eastern Siberia and in North America from the Seward Peninsula in Alaska to Bathurst Inlet on the arctic coast of Nunavut (Lindroth 1961a: 42).

Records.

CAN: NT, NU, YT USA: AK - Holarctic

Note.

Two other subspecies of this species occur in eastern Asia.