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 Patrobus stygicus Chaudoir, 1872 Patrobus stygicus Chaudoir, 1872a: 46. Type locality: "cote meridionale de Terre-Neuve" (original citation). Holotype [by monotypy] (♂) in MHNP. Distribution. This species ranges from Newfoundland (Lindroth 1955a: 83) to the Chukchi Sea coast in northwestern Alaska (Lindroth 1961a: 183), south to north-central Washington (Pohl 1998: 690), northern Minnesota (Clearwater and Lake Counties, CNC), the upper peninsula of Michigan (Escanaba, MCZ), and north-central Maine (Larochelle and Lariviere 1990a: 28; Piscataquis County, CNC). The species is also known from the Far East (Zamotajlov 2003b: 285). Fossil remnants, dated between 10,400 and 15,400 years B.P., have been unearthed in Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia (Miller 1997: 250) and central Iowa (Schwert 1992: 76); others from a Plio-Pleistocene sequence have been found in northwestern Greenland ( Boecher 1995: 23). Records. CAN : AB, BC, LB, MB, NF, NT, ON, QC, SK, YT USA : AK, ME, MI, MN, WA - Holarctic