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 Microlestes curtipennis (Casey, 1920) Blechrus curtipennis Casey, 1920: 270. Type locality: "San Francisco [San Francisco County], California" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 145), in USNM [# 47685]. Distribution. This species is known from scattered localities from central Saskatchewan (Lindroth 1969a: 1053) to the Okanagan Valley in south-central British Columbia (Blades and Maier 1996: 66), south to the San Francisco area (Casey 1920: 270), northern Utah (Lindroth 1969a: 1053), northeastern Colorado (Bell 1971: 47), and southwestern South Dakota (Kirk and Balsbaugh 1975: 38). Records. CAN : AB, BC, SK USA : CA, CO, OR, SD, UT, WY