Pterostichus protractus LeConte, 1860

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Pterostichus protractus LeConte, 1860

Pterostichus protractus LeConte, 1860: 319. Type locality: "Jasper House [= Jasper, Alberta]" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Bousquet (1999: 178), in MCZ [# 5604].

Pterostichus inornatus Bland, 1865: 381. Type locality: "Colorado Territory" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Bousquet (1999: 178), in ANSP [# 2701]. Synonymy established by LeConte (1873a: 303), confirmed by Bousquet (1999: 178).

Pterostichus fontinalis Casey, 1913: 110. Type locality: "Yellowstone Park, Wyoming" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 122), in USNM [# 47004]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 463).

Pterostichus zunianus Casey, 1913: 111. Type locality: "New Mexico" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Bousquet (1999: 183), in USNM [# 47005]. New synonymy (Serge Laplante pers. comm. 1998).

Hypherpes vivax Casey, 1918: 333. Type locality: "Yellowstone Park, Wyoming" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 122), in USNM [# 47007]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 463).

Hypherpes intectus Casey, 1918: 333. Type locality: "Boulder Co[unty], Colorado" (original citation). Lectotype (♂), designated by Bousquet (1999: 173), in USNM [# 47006]. New synonymy (Serge Laplante pers. comm. 1998).

Hypherpes provensis Casey, 1924: 69. Type locality: "Provo Cañon [Utah County], Utah" (original citation for the lectotype). Lectotype (♂), designated by Lindroth (1975: 123), in USNM [# 47017]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 463).

Hypherpes utensis Casey, 1924: 69. Type locality: "Provo Cañon [Utah County], Utah" (original citation). Lectotype (♀), designated by Lindroth (1975: 123), in USNM [# 47010]. Synonymy established by Lindroth (1966: 463).

Distribution.

This species occurs from the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in south-central Alberta to the Kootenay River drainage in southeastern British Columbia (Lindroth 1966: 463), south to the Sierra Nevada in California (Fall 1901a: 45; Papp 1978: 167), northern Arizona (Apache and Coconino Counties, CNC), and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in New Mexico (Fall and Cockerell 1907: 158; Casey, 1913: 111, as Pterostichus zunianus ). The record from Baja California (Horn 1894: 308) is suspect; that from “Nebraska” (Schaupp 1882c: 40) needs confirmation.

Records.

CAN: AB, BC USA: AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, UT, WA, WY [NE]