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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Scaphinotus johnsoni Van Dyke, 1924
Scaphinotus johnsoni
Van Dyke, 1924b: 3. Type locality: "Olympic Mountains, Washington" (original citation). Holotype (♀) in CAS [# 3335]. Etymology. This specific name
was
proposed for Orson Bennett Johnson [1849-1917], a pioneer Pacific Northwest entomologist and first professor of natural science at the University of Washington.
Scaphinotus klahowyae
Perrault, 1973b: 47. Type locality: "Klahowya, near Sappho, Clallam Co[unty], Olympic Peninsula, Washington" (original citation). Holotype (♂) location unknown (probably in MHNP). Synonymy established by Greene (1976: 326).
Distribution.
This rarely collected species is restricted to the southern part of Vancouver Island (Lindroth 1961a: 22) and the Olympic Mountains in northwestern Washington (Van Dyke 1924b: 3).
Records.
CAN
: BC (VCI)
USA
: WA
Note.
This species has been placed in the subgenus
Brennus
by Lindroth (1961a: 22) and Gidaspow (1968: 155) but van den Berghe and Davidson (Robert L. Davidson pers. comm. 2008) agreed that this small species is a member of the subgenus
Stenocantharus
.