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 Bembidion oberthueri Hayward, 1901 Bembidium oberthueri Hayward, 1901: 158. Type locality: "Winnipeg, Man[itoba]" (original citation for the lectotype). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1963b: 375), in MCZ. Etymology. The specific name honors Rene Oberthuer [1852-1944], a wealthy amateur coleopterist. His father, Francois-Charles Oberthuer , himself an amateur lepidopterist, owned the largest printing house in France at one time, with about 1,000 employees, and became extremely rich through his creativity. At Rennes he built a specially-made house just to hold the Lepidoptera collection of his oldest son, Charles, and the Coleoptera collection of Rene . The Oberthuer collection was built almost entirely through purchases, by financing collecting expeditions abroad, and by trade. Indeed, the Oberthuers agreed to provide several missionary congregations with their printed material free of charge in exchange for an obligation for the missionaries to collect all insects they saw. During World War II, Georg Frey, himself a beetle collector who eventually gathered one of the two largest personal collections ever built (the other was the Oberthuer collection), was an officer in the German army; he made sure that the Oberthuer building housing the collection was properly heated and maintained (Cambefort 2006: 244-250). Note. This name was proposed for Notaphus viridicollis LaFerte-Senectere , 1841 sensu Hayward (1897: 103) and the description was by indication (see ICZN 1999: Article 12.2). Three specimens in MCZ are labeled as "Type" [# 16296] but the lectotype is the one labeled "Winnipeg Man July 7-12, 1887 / Roland Hayward Coll." Distribution. The range of this species extends from New Brunswick to the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in Alberta (Lindroth 1963b: 375), south to south-central Montana (Carbon County, UASM), "Nebraska," "Illinois" (Hayward 1897: 103, as Bembidion viridicolle ), and southeastern West Virginia (Greenbrier County, David R. Maddison pers. comm. 2011). The record from San Bernardino County, California (Cooper 1976: 163) is probably based on a mislabeled specimen; that from "Indiana" (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993: 144) needs confirmation. One specimen from Kamloops, British Columbia, was regarded as possibly mislabeled by Lindroth (1963b: 375). Records. CAN : AB, MB, NB, ON, QC, SK USA : CT, IA, IL, MA, ME, MI, MN, MT, ND, NE, NH, NY, OH, PA, SD, VT, WI, WV [BC, IN]