Pseudanophthalmus petrunkevitchi Valentine, 1945

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 324

Pseudanophthalmus petrunkevitchi Valentine, 1945

Pseudanophthalmus petrunkevitchi Valentine, 1945: 652. Type locality: "Skyline Cavern, two miles southwest of Front Royal, Warren Co[unty], V[irgini]a" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in USNM [# 57054]. Etymology. The specific name was proposed in honor of the eminent arachnologist Alexander Ivanovitch Petrunkevitch [1875-1964]. Born in Ukraine, Petrunkevitch settled in New Haven, Connecticut, where he taught from 1910 to 1944 at Yale University. He published extensively on spiders and scorpions and wrote two volumes of poetry under the pseudonym of Alexandr Jan-Ruban.

Distribution.

This species, the only one of the genus Pseudanophthalmus with pigmented eyespots, is known from a few specimens collected at two nearby caves in Warren and Pages Counties, northern Virginia (Barr 2004: 19).

Records.

USA: VA