P. armata (Tullberg, 1869)

– Lipura armata Tullberg, 1869: 18

AK Weber 1950; Hurd & Lindquist 1958; Ryan 1981; Skidmore 1995

YT Hammer 1953

NT Hammer 1953; Toda & Tanno 1983; Skidmore 1995

NU James 1938; Hammer 1953; Mills & Richards 1953

AB Beirne 1972; Powell & Skaley 1975, cf.

ON James 1933; Broadbent & Tomlin 1980; Skidmore 1995

QC Marshall 1964, 1967, cf.; Skidmore 1995; Therrien et al. 1999a; Chagnon et al. 2000, 2001, cf.; Rochefort 2006

NS Calder & Bleakney 1965, 1967; Fox 1967; Christiansen & Bellinger 1980, 1998; Skidmore 1995

Remarks: All of the above records of this species require verification because of continuing significant discrepancies about this species’s limits between American and European authors (see Christiansen & Bellinger 1980).

General distribution: published records almost cosmopolitan, but real range is uncertain due to confusion with congeners.