We newly report six ground beetles from Ohio, comprising Badister parviceps, Stenolophus dissimilis, Harpalus somnulentus, Pentagonica fiavipes, Agonum albicrus, and Lebia collaris

Horn, David J

Purrington, Foster Forbes

Stanton, R. Chris

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The Great Lakes Entomologist 
Volume 32 
Numbers 1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 1999 Numbers 
1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 1999 
Article 7 
April 1999 
Ground Beetle Range Extensions: Six New Ohio Records 
(Coleoptera: Carabidae) 
Foster Forbes Purrington 
Ohio State University 
R. Chris Stanton 
Ohio State University 
David J. Horn 
Ohio State University 
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THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST1999 47 
GROUND BEETLE RANGE EXTENSIONS: 

SIX NEW OHIO RECORDS (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) 

Foster Forbes Purrington 1, R. Chris Stanton 1 and David J. Horn1 
ABSTRACT 
We 
newly 
report six ground beetles from Ohio, comprising Badister par­
viceps, Stenolophus dissimilis, Harpalus somnulentus, Pentagonica fiavipes, 
Agonum 
albicrus, 
and Lebia collaris. 
Blacklight and pitfall insect trapp g in southern Ohio upland mixed-oak 
forests, underway since 1995 as part of long term ecological studies exploring 
the 
effects 
of prescribed burning protocols, has produced a number of new 
Ohio distributional records for ground beetles (Carabidae) nd Lepidoptera 
(Purrington and Stanton 
1996, 
Purrington and Horn 1996). This ongoing re­
search 
project, a 
joint venture of the U.S. Forest Service and The Ohio State 
University, is sited in Lawrence and Vinton Counties. 
Additionally, as p rt of an Ohio Biological Survey bi diversity assess­
ment 
initiative, 
in 1998 we began assaying insect diversity at Deep Woods 
Farm, Benton 
Township, Hocking County 
with Malaise, blacklight and pitfall 
traps 
deployed 
in mixed hardwood forest along a steep altitudinal gradient of 
about 
200 m. Here 
we 
report six ground beetle species heretofore unrecorded for Ohio 
(Purrington and Stanton 
1996, Will 
et al. 1995, Bousquet and Larochelle 
1993, Purrington et al. 1989), taken at the above sites and elsewhere. 
Voucher specimens of all species re reta ned by F.F. Purrington at the De­
partment of 
Entomology, 
The Ohio State University, Columbus. 
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION 
Berlese funnel extraction of "forest litter" recovered one Badister parvi­
ceps Ball (Licinini) near Blue Creek in Adams County (Jefferson Twp.) on 8 
August 
197? (col. L.E. Watrous), 
It is widely distributed in eastern North 
America from Quebec and Manitoba to Texas; west of the Rocky Mountains it 
is recorded only from British Columbia (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993). 
A single Stenolophus dissimilis Dejean (Harpalini) was captured by auto­
matic 
blacklight 
trap at Arch Rock in the Vinton Fur ace Experimental For­
est 
(Vinton Township) 
near Dundas, Vinton County on 18 May 1996. Another 
was taken by blacklight at 
Apple 
Creek (East Union Township), Wayne 
County, Ohio by one f us (FFP) on 10 June 1990. This species is known in 
the north 
from Missouri 
and Indiana but most records are from southeastern 
and Gulf states. 
IDepartment of Entomology, The Ohio State University, 1735 Neil Avenue, Colum­
bus, OR 43210. 
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Three IIarpalus somnulentus Dejean (Harpalini) were taken in 1998 by 
pitfall trapping at Deep Woods Farm in Hocking County (23 June, 30 June, 4 
August). They were captured in an open wooded floodplain along a perma­
nent creek that borders 
a 
grassy unkempt field, Two others were taken in 
Wayne 
County, Ohio (col. 
FFP) [East Union Township: 1 May 1987 and (ten­
eral) 
Wooster Township: 
23 August 1988]. 
The range of II, somnulentus is transcontinental in North America; from 
the Northwest Territories to Alabama and Arizona at many elevations in 
principally open situations along watercourses and lakes, in prairie, damp 
pastures and mountain meadows (Noonan 1991, Lindroth 1961-1969), It 
seems to have well developed flight wings and probably flies. Nevertheless it 
is not responsive 
to 
ultraviolet light traps and so may be inactive at night 
(Noonan 1991), Wide distribution and considerable morphological variation 
in this 
species 
has generated 25 names, 19 by Thomas L. Casey, that are now 
reduced to synonyms (Noonan 1991, Bousquet and Larochelle 1993). 
A single Pentagonica flavipes (LeConte) (Pentagonicini) was taken with 
blacklight at Watch 
Rock 
in the Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest on 3 
July 1997. It is known from Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia and Gulf 
states (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993). Several specimens were collected on 
grasses (13 November 1994) at a saline lagoon i  coastal Veracruz, Mexico 
(FFP), underlining its tropical 
affinities, 
Two 
Agonum albicrus Dejean (Platynini) were captured by blacklight at 
Youngs Branch (Decatur Township), Lawrence County, Ohio on 20 June 
1996. Others have been caught by Kip Will (pers, comm,) treading under 
sweet gums, Liquidambar styraciflua, at Lake Hope State Park (Brown 
Township), Vinton 
County on 16 July 1994, and in North Olmstead, Cuya­
hoga County (Bradley Woods Reservation) on 19 June 1993 (coL H.J. Lee), 
This 
species 
is known from throughout the eastern states and Ontario, west 
to Oklahoma and Iowa (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993), Blatchley (1910) 
lists it as rare, citing "two specimens from the margins of the cypress 
swamp" in 
Knox County, 
Indiana, 
One Lebia collar-is Dejean (Lebiini) was taken with blacklight at the 
Watch Rock site in Vinton County on 24 July 1997, It is reported from 
Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Indiana (Bousquet and Larochelle 
1993), 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
We thank Robert L, Davidson, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 
Pittsburgh, 
George 
E. Ball and Danny Shepley, Strickland Museum, Uni­
versity of Alberta, Edmonton 
for 
determinations and for confirming identi­
fications of taxa 
we 
report, Harry J, Lee, Fairview Park, Ohio and Kipling 
W, 
Will, 
Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca contributed 
records of several Agonum albicrus, David Blyth generously supports the 
Biodiversity initiative underway on his Deep Woods Farm in Hocking 
County. We greatly appreciate the field logistics support and laboratory ef­
fort of 
Bill Raby, 
David Osborne, Adrienne Smith, Monica Farfan and Tim 
Hissam. John Peacock developed the automatic blacklight trap, Partial 
funding of this research was provided by the 
U,S. 
Department of Agricul­
ture Forest 
Service: 
Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, the Ohio Bio­
logical Survey and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of 
Wildlife. 
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LITERATURE CITED 
Blatchley, W. S. 1910. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of he Coleoptera or beetles 
(exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana-with bibliography and 
descriptions of new species. Nature, Indianapolis. 1386 pp. 
Bousquet, Y. and A. 
Larochelle. 1993. 
Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Tra­
chypachidae, Rhysodidae, C rabidae including Cicindelini) of America north of Mex­
ico. Mem. Entomol. Soc. Canada 167. 397 pp. 
Lindroth, 
C. 
H. 1961-1969. The ground-beetles (Carabidae, excl. Cicindelinae) of 
Canada and 
Alaska, 
Pts. 1-6 Opusc. Entomol. Suppl. 20, 24, 29, 33, 34, 35. Lund. 
1192 pp. 
Noonan, G. 
R 1991. 
Classification, cladistics, and natural history of native North 
American Harpalus Latreille 
(Insecta: Coleoptera: 
Carabidae: Harpalini), excluding 
subgenera 
Glanodes 
and Pseudophonus. Thomas Say Found. Monog. 1:3.310 pp. 
Purrington, F. 
F., 
J. E. Bater, M. G. Paoletti and B. R. Stinner. 1989. Ground beetles 
from a remnant oak-maple-beech forest and its surroundings in northeastern Ohio 
(Coleoptera: Carabidae). Great Lakes Entomol. 22:105-110. 
Purrington, F. F. and 
D. 
J. Horn. 1996. Clearwing moths captured by ultraviolet light 
traps 
in 
southern Ohio (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Great Lakes Entomol. 29:191-193. 
Purrington, F. F. and R. C. Stanton. 1996. New records of five ground beetles from 
Ohio {Coleoptera: arabidael. Great Lakes Entomol. 29:43-44. 
Will, K. w., F. F. Purrington and D. J. Horn. 1995. Ground beetles of islands in the 
western basin 
of 
Lake Erie and the adjacent mainland (Coleoptera: Carabidae, in­
cluding Cicindelinil. Great Lakes Entomol. 28:55-70. 
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The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 32 Numbers 1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 1999 Numbers 1 & 2 - Spring/Summer 1999 Article 7 April 1999 Ground Beetle Range Extensions: Six New Ohio Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Foster Forbes Purrington Ohio State University R. Chris Stanton Ohio State University David J. Horn Ohio State University Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle  Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation Purrington, Foster Forbes; Stanton, R. Chris; and Horn, David J. 1999. "Ground Beetle Range Extensions: Six New Ohio Records (Coleoptera: Carabidae)," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 32 (1) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol32/iss1/7 This Peer-Review Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST1999 47 GROUND BEETLE RANGE EXTENSIONS: SIX NEW OHIO RECORDS (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) Foster Forbes Purrington 1, R. Chris Stanton 1 and David J. Horn1 ABSTRACT We newly report six ground beetles from Ohio, comprising Badister par­viceps, Stenolophus dissimilis, Harpalus somnulentus, Pentagonica fiavipes, Agonum albicrus, and Lebia collaris. Blacklight and pitfall insect trapp g in southern Ohio upland mixed-oak forests, underway since 1995 as part of long term ecological studies exploring the effects of prescribed burning protocols, has produced a number of new Ohio distributional records for ground beetles (Carabidae) nd Lepidoptera (Purrington and Stanton 1996, Purrington and Horn 1996). This ongoing re­search project, a joint venture of the U.S. Forest Service and The Ohio State University, is sited in Lawrence and Vinton Counties. Additionally, as p rt of an Ohio Biological Survey bi diversity assess­ment initiative, in 1998 we began assaying insect diversity at Deep Woods Farm, Benton Township, Hocking County with Malaise, blacklight and pitfall traps deployed in mixed hardwood forest along a steep altitudinal gradient of about 200 m. Here we report six ground beetle species heretofore unrecorded for Ohio (Purrington and Stanton 1996, Will et al. 1995, Bousquet and Larochelle 1993, Purrington et al. 1989), taken at the above sites and elsewhere. Voucher specimens of all species re reta ned by F.F. Purrington at the De­partment of Entomology, The Ohio State University, Columbus. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION Berlese funnel extraction of "forest litter" recovered one Badister parvi­ceps Ball (Licinini) near Blue Creek in Adams County (Jefferson Twp.) on 8 August 197? (col. L.E. Watrous), It is widely distributed in eastern North America from Quebec and Manitoba to Texas; west of the Rocky Mountains it is recorded only from British Columbia (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993). A single Stenolophus dissimilis Dejean (Harpalini) was captured by auto­matic blacklight trap at Arch Rock in the Vinton Fur ace Experimental For­est (Vinton Township) near Dundas, Vinton County on 18 May 1996. Another was taken by blacklight at Apple Creek (East Union Township), Wayne County, Ohio by one f us (FFP) on 10 June 1990. This species is known in the north from Missouri and Indiana but most records are from southeastern and Gulf states. IDepartment of Entomology, The Ohio State University, 1735 Neil Avenue, Colum­bus, OR 43210. 1Purrington et al.: Ground Beetle Range Extensions: Six New Ohio Records (Coleoptera:Published by ValpoScholar, 1999-48 THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 32, No. 1 & 2 Three IIarpalus somnulentus Dejean (Harpalini) were taken in 1998 by pitfall trapping at Deep Woods Farm in Hocking County (23 June, 30 June, 4 August). They were captured in an open wooded floodplain along a perma­nent creek that borders a grassy unkempt field, Two others were taken in Wayne County, Ohio (col. FFP) [East Union Township: 1 May 1987 and (ten­eral) Wooster Township: 23 August 1988]. The range of II, somnulentus is transcontinental in North America; from the Northwest Territories to Alabama and Arizona at many elevations in principally open situations along watercourses and lakes, in prairie, damp pastures and mountain meadows (Noonan 1991, Lindroth 1961-1969), It seems to have well developed flight wings and probably flies. Nevertheless it is not responsive to ultraviolet light traps and so may be inactive at night (Noonan 1991), Wide distribution and considerable morphological variation in this species has generated 25 names, 19 by Thomas L. Casey, that are now reduced to synonyms (Noonan 1991, Bousquet and Larochelle 1993). A single Pentagonica flavipes (LeConte) (Pentagonicini) was taken with blacklight at Watch Rock in the Vinton Furnace Experimental Forest on 3 July 1997. It is known from Arkansas, South Carolina, Georgia and Gulf states (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993). Several specimens were collected on grasses (13 November 1994) at a saline lagoon i  coastal Veracruz, Mexico (FFP), underlining its tropical affinities, Two Agonum albicrus Dejean (Platynini) were captured by blacklight at Youngs Branch (Decatur Township), Lawrence County, Ohio on 20 June 1996. Others have been caught by Kip Will (pers, comm,) treading under sweet gums, Liquidambar styraciflua, at Lake Hope State Park (Brown Township), Vinton County on 16 July 1994, and in North Olmstead, Cuya­hoga County (Bradley Woods Reservation) on 19 June 1993 (coL H.J. Lee), This species is known from throughout the eastern states and Ontario, west to Oklahoma and Iowa (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993), Blatchley (1910) lists it as rare, citing "two specimens from the margins of the cypress swamp" in Knox County, Indiana, One Lebia collar-is Dejean (Lebiini) was taken with blacklight at the Watch Rock site in Vinton County on 24 July 1997, It is reported from Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Indiana (Bousquet and Larochelle 1993), ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We thank Robert L, Davidson, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, George E. Ball and Danny Shepley, Strickland Museum, Uni­versity of Alberta, Edmonton for determinations and for confirming identi­fications of taxa we report, Harry J, Lee, Fairview Park, Ohio and Kipling W, Will, Department of Entomology, Cornell University, Ithaca contributed records of several Agonum albicrus, David Blyth generously supports the Biodiversity initiative underway on his Deep Woods Farm in Hocking County. We greatly appreciate the field logistics support and laboratory ef­fort of Bill Raby, David Osborne, Adrienne Smith, Monica Farfan and Tim Hissam. John Peacock developed the automatic blacklight trap, Partial funding of this research was provided by the U,S. Department of Agricul­ture Forest Service: Northeastern Forest Experiment Station, the Ohio Bio­logical Survey and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Wildlife. 2The Great Lakes Entomologist, Vol. 32, No. 1 [1999], Art. 7https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol32/iss1/71999 49THE GREAT LAKES ENTOMOLOGIST LITERATURE CITED Blatchley, W. S. 1910. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of he Coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana-with bibliography and descriptions of new species. Nature, Indianapolis. 1386 pp. Bousquet, Y. and A. Larochelle. 1993. Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Tra­chypachidae, Rhysodidae, C rabidae including Cicindelini) of America north of Mex­ico. Mem. Entomol. Soc. Canada 167. 397 pp. Lindroth, C. H. 1961-1969. The ground-beetles (Carabidae, excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska, Pts. 1-6 Opusc. Entomol. Suppl. 20, 24, 29, 33, 34, 35. Lund. 1192 pp. Noonan, G. R 1991. Classification, cladistics, and natural history of native North American Harpalus Latreille (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini), excluding subgenera Glanodes and Pseudophonus. Thomas Say Found. Monog. 1:3.310 pp. Purrington, F. F., J. E. Bater, M. G. Paoletti and B. R. Stinner. 1989. Ground beetles from a remnant oak-maple-beech forest and its surroundings in northeastern Ohio (Coleoptera: Carabidae). Great Lakes Entomol. 22:105-110. Purrington, F. F. and D. J. Horn. 1996. Clearwing moths captured by ultraviolet light traps in southern Ohio (Lepidoptera: Sesiidae). Great Lakes Entomol. 29:191-193. Purrington, F. F. and R. C. Stanton. 1996. New records of five ground beetles from Ohio {Coleoptera: arabidael. Great Lakes Entomol. 29:43-44. Will, K. w., F. F. Purrington and D. J. Horn. 1995. Ground beetles of islands in the western basin of Lake Erie and the adjacent mainland (Coleoptera: Carabidae, in­cluding Cicindelinil. Great Lakes Entomol. 28:55-70. 3Purrington et al.: Ground Beetle Range Extensions: Six New Ohio Records (Coleoptera:Published by ValpoScholar, 1999

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