New Synonymies and Notes on North American Loxandrus LeConte (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Author
Bousquet, Yves
text
The Coleopterists Bulletin
2006
2006-06-30
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2
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1649/865.1
journal article
10.1649/865.1
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17.
Loxandrus piciventris
(LeConte, 1848:337
)
This
taxon was described from an unspecified number of specimens collected in «
Georgia
».
LeConte’s
collection in
MCZ
contains a single specimen under that name. The specimen, a female labelled «[orange disk]/Type 5698/
L. piciventris Lec.
[handwritten]» is herein designated as the
lectotype
and the label «
Lectotype
Argutor
piciventris LeConte
des.
Y. Bousquet
2004» has been added
.
The
lectotype
(SBL
¼
5.2 mm
) belongs to the
agilis
group and seems specifically different from all species treated by Allen (1972). It differs from members of
L. piceolus
,
L. accelerans
,
L. algidus
, and
L. unilobus
, of which the body sizes approach that of
L. piciventris
, in having the microsculpture well impressed on the frons, even at middle, the sides of pronotum less rounded, and other minute details. This taxon was considered a variety of
L. velox
(Dejean)
by Schaupp (1880:20). I have not seen any specimen of
L. velox
.