Atheta blatchleyi Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz 1926

• Main Author: Gusarov, Vladimir I.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Insecta; Coleoptera; Staphylinidae; Atheta; Atheta blatchleyi; Canada; Churchill; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5102976; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5102976

Atheta blatchleyi Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926 (Figs. 82–83 in Lohse et al. 1990 (as Boreophilia chillcotti)) Atheta caviceps Blatchley, 1910: 354 (nec Poppius, 1908). Atheta caviceps: Fenyes, 1920: 227 (as a species of doubtful systematic position; also as preoccupied name). Atheta (s. str.) caviceps: Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 639 (as preoccupied name and synonym of At. blatchleyi). Atheta (s. str.) blatchleyi Bernhauer & Scheerpeltz, 1926: 639 (replacement name for At. caviceps Blatchley, 1910 (nec Poppius, 1908)). Atheta (s. str.) caviceps: Moore & Legner, 1975: 355 (as preoccupied name and synonym of At. blatchleyi). Atheta (s. str.) blatchleyi: Moore & Legner, 1975: 355 (as valid species; misspelled as At. blatchelyi). Xenota caviceps: Seevers, 1978: 268 (as synonym of X. blatchleyi). Xenota blatchleyi: Seevers, 1978: 267 (as valid species). Boreophilia chillcotti Lohse in Lohse et al., 1990: 157, syn. nov. Type material. Lectotype of Atheta caviceps (here designated): ♂ (with the head and thorax missing), “TYPE” (red label), “Pine Ind.[iana] v:19:07 [19.v.1907]”, “3612. Det. A.Fenyes ”, “Purdue Blatchley collection”, “ Atheta caviceps sp. nov. 5243” (PURC). Paralectotypes: ♀ (with the head and prothorax missing), “ Marshall Co. Ind. [iana] W.S.B. [Blatchley] 5­20­09 [20.v.1909]”, “3616 det. A.Fenyes ”, “Purdue Blatchley collection” (PURC) (The second paralectotype of At. caviceps (♀ (with the head and prothorax missing), “ Marion Co. Ind. [iana] W.S.B. [Blatchley] 5­15­10 [15.v.1910]”, “3616 det. A.Fenyes ”, “Purdue Blatchley collection” (PURC)) is not conspecific with the lectotype). Holotype of Boreophilia chillcotti: CANADA: Manitoba: ♂, Churchill, 4.vi.1952 (J.G.Chillcott) (CNCI). Additional material. UNITED STATES: Alaska: 2♂♂, 2♀♀, Kenai Mts., 3 mi. NW Jct. Hwy. 1 & 9, 400’, 18.vi.1978 (Smetana & Becker) (CNCI, KSEM); ♂, Mi. 23 Taylor Hwy., 8.vii.1968 (Campbell & Smetana) (CNCI); 2♂♂, 6♀♀, Mi. 1249 Alaska Hwy., Deadman Lake, 6–7.vii.1968 (Campbell & Smetana) ...