Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Author Bousquet, Yves Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bousquety1@yahoo.com text ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 1313-2970-245-1 FFFF52503A0AFF882450FFB66D45FF8E 578462 Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828 Ophonus puncticeps Stephens, 1828a: 163. Type locality: "near Dover [United Kingdom]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1968: 757), in BMNH. Distribution. This Palaearctic species is adventive in North America where it is known from Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia (Majka et al. 2006: 606) to eastern Iowa (Linn County, Doug A. Veal pers. comm. 2009), south to southern Pennsylvania [see Larochelle and Lariviere 1989b: Fig. 1] and New Jersey (Steffens and Davidson 1979: 64). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in Long Island, New York, in 1954 (Dietrich 1958: 46). Records. CAN : NB, NS, ON, PE, QC USA : CT, IA, IL, MA, ME, MI, NH, NJ, NY, OH, PA, RI, VT, WI - Adventive