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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Trechinae » Bembidiini » Bembidiina » Lionepha » Lionepha probata
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Lionepha erasa (LeConte 1859) - Lionepha probata - male
Copyright © 2019 Jonathan W. Quist

Lionepha erasa (LeConte 1859) - Lionepha probata - Male
Santaquin Canyon, Tinney Flat, 7,055' elevation , Utah County, Utah, USA
July 18, 2017
Size: ~3.8 mm
A widespread species in the west, but not recorded in Utah by Bousquet 2012.
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Contributed by Jonathan W. Quist on 28 February, 2019 - 10:38pm
Last updated 8 May, 2020 - 8:46pm

Lionepha probata (Casey, 1918)
This taxon is removed from synonymy with L. erasa (LeConte, 1859) in a paper by Maddison & Sproul (2020) that is addressed in the Registry of Nearctic Geadephaga. Unlike strictly west coastal L. erasa, its sibling L. probata extends eastward to the regional span Montana-New Mexico.
… Peter W. Messer, 10 March, 2020 - 3:01pm login or register to post comments

 
Very interesting. Thank you f
Very interesting. Thank you for this update.
… Jonathan W. Quist, 10 March, 2020 - 4:42pm login or register to post comments

2020 update: Lionepha erasa-like, but not L. erasa
and therefore not a new state record for Utah after all. According to personal communication (2020) with DR Maddison, this is "surely Lionepha probata."
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