Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
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Bousquet, Yves
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
bousquety1@yahoo.com
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Ozaena lemoulti
Baenninger
, 1932
Ozaena lemoulti
Baenninger
, 1932: 184. Type locality: "Saint Jean du Maroni, Franz[
oesisch
] Guayana" (original citation). Holotype (♂) in ETHZ. Etymology. The specific name was proposed for
Eugene
Henri Le Moult [1882-1965], collector of insects in Guyana and later insect dealer in Paris. His father was the director of the penitentiary at Cayenne and Le Moult used convicts to collect
Morpho
in large number. In 1913 he published his first sale catalogue of insects and a pair of the large cerambycid
Titanus giganteus
was offered for 500 francs (Moret 1995: 404).
Ozaena halffteri
Ogueta, 1965: 83. Type locality: "Tlapacoyan, Veracruz,
Mexico"
(original citation). Holotype (♀) location unknown. Synonymy established by Ball and McCleve (1990: 100).
Distribution.
This species ranges from southern Arizona to northern Argentina, including the Cayman Islands in the West Indies (Ball and Shpeley 1990: 814-815).
Records.
USA
: AZ - Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama, Venezuela.