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 Amara erratica (Duftschmid, 1812) Carabus erraticus Duftschmid, 1812: 120. Type locality: Austria (inferred from title of the book). Holotype [by monotypy] probably lost (Lindroth 1968: 716). Amara punctulata Dejean, 1828: 472. Type locality: "Kamtschatka [Russia]; detroit de Norfolk sur la cote nord-ouest de l'Amerique du Nord [Alaska]" (original citation). One syntype in MHNP (Lindroth 1955b: 17). Synonymy established by Zimmermann (1832: 24), confirmed by Lindroth (1955b: 17). Amara septentrionalis Schiodte , 1837: 170. Type locality: "Lapland [probably Swedish Lappland]" (original citation). Lectotype, designated by Hansen and Martin (2000: 214), in ZMUC. Synonymy established by Schiodte (1841: 187). Amara affinis Motschulsky, 1850a: 60 [primary homonym of Amara affinis Dejean, 1828 and Amara affinis Motschulsky, 1845]. Type locality: "Kamtschatka [Russia]" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Hieke (1975: 328), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Hieke (1975: 328). Amara obscuricornis Motschulsky, 1859b: 540. Type locality: region of Yakutsk, east-central Siberia, Russia (inferred from title of the paper); "Kamtschatka" listed by Motschulsky (1850a: 60). Lectotype (♂), designated by Hieke (1975: 323), in ZMMU. Synonymy established by Hieke (1975: 322). Note. Motschulsky described this taxon in a paper about beetles collected by Pavlofski in the "gouvernement de Iakoutsk." In the same publication, Motschulsky refers to his book Die Kaefer Russlands (1850) where the species is listed, but not described, and the provenance given is "Kamtschatka." The lectotype, designated by Hieke (1975: 322), bears two labels: "Jakutsk" and "Amara obscuricornis Motsch. Sib. or. Kamtsch." Amara sibirica Csiki, 1929: 427. Replacement name for Amara affinis Motschulsky, 1850. Distribution. This circumpolar species is found over most of the boreal-alpine region in the Palaearctic Region and in North America from Alaska (Lindroth 1968: 717) to Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 107), south to New England (Lindroth 1968: 716), northern Wisconsin (Messer 2010: 38), southern Colorado (Mineral County, UASM; Lindroth 1968: 716), northern Utah (Salt Lake County, CMNH), and Mount Rainier in western Washington (Lindroth 1968: 717). Several state records (e.g., CA, IA, MI, MN, ND, NM, OR) listed in Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 196) and taken from earlier authors probably refer to other species or need confirmation. Records. FRA : PM CAN : AB, BC, LB, MB, NB, NF, NT, NU, ON, QC, SK, YT USA : AK, CO, ID, ME, MT, NH, UT, VT, WA, WI, WY - Holarctic