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Issue: Vol. 2121 No. 1: 29 May. 2009
Type: Article
Published: 2009-05-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2121.1.3
Page range: 27–34
Abstract views: 88
PDF downloaded: 35

A redescription of Blethisa multipunctata aurata Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Elaphrinae)

Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, K. W. Neatby Building, 960 Carling Avenue, Ottawa, ON K1A 0C6, Canada
Laboratory of Entomology, Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch, Russian Academy of Science; Russia, 690022, Prospect 100-letia, 159
Higashi-gotanda 5-19-7, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo 141-0022, Japan
Coleoptera Blethisa aurata description distribution taxonomy Blethisa inexspectata Blethisa hudsonica

Abstract

Blethisa aurata Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 is redescribed based on recently collected specimens. The taxon is kept as a subspecies of B. multipunctata (Linnaeus 1758). This subspecies is known from forested regions on the Pacific watershed of Russia and Hokkaido (Japan), and Alaska (United States) and subarctic regions of the Northwest Territories (Canada). Blethisa inexspectata Goulet and Smetana, 1983 is a new synonym of B. multipunctata aurata. The remaining North American specimens originally assigned under B. multipunctata aurata (boreal east of Yukon and the Rocky Mountains) belong to B. hudsonica Casey, new status.

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