Abax parallelepipedus (Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783)

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 562

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416
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scientific name	Abax parallelepipedus (Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783)
status

Treatment

Abax parallelepipedus (Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783) View in CoL

Carabus parallelepipedus Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783: 105. Type locality: Slavonia (inferred from title of the book). Syntype(s) probably lost (Lindroth 1969a: 1116).

Carabus ater Villers, 1789: 364 [primary homonym of Carabus ater Goeze, 1777]. Type locality: "Gallia Aust." (original citation). Syntype(s) location unknown. Synonymy established by Csiki (1916: 15).

Distribution.

This European species is adventive in North America where it is known from Sydney, Nova Scotia (Brown 1967: 87) and western Newfoundland (David W. Langor pers. comm. 1990). The first inventoried specimen collected on this continent was found in 1965 in Nova Scotia.

Records.

CAN: NF, NS - Adventive

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae
Genus	Abax