PROC. ENTOMOL. SOC. WASH, 92(2), 1990, pp. 205-207 DISTRIBUTION AND HABITAT OF DYSCHIRIUS CAMPICOLA LINDROTH (COLEOPTERA: CARABIDAE) WITH NEW STATE RECORDS FOR OHIO AND ILLINOIS, FIRST RECORDS EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER Robert L. Davidson and HARR-i' J. Lee, Jr. (RLD) Section of Invertebrate Zoology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213; (HJL) 22646 MacBeth Avenue. Fairview Park, Ohio 44126. Abstract.— Dyschiriits canipicola Lindroth (Coleoptera: Carabidae) is recorded from Ohio and Illinois, first records east of the Mississippi River. The habitat is described and all known locality records are assembled and presented in a range map. Kev Words: habitat, distribution In 1981, Harry Lee collected a specimen of Dychiriiis canipicola Lindroth at a very interesting salt flat habitat in northeastern Ohio. He had learned about this locality through the kindness of James Bissell, Cu-rator of Botany at the Cleveland Museum of Natural Histoi7. Lindroth (1961) de-scribed this beetle from three widely sepa-rated localities in the Great Plains (Mani-toba, New Mexico, Texas). At the time of its discovery in Ohio, it was still known only from these three original localities (Erwin et al. 1977). We have subsequently become aware of many more localities for this species based on museum specimens we have seen and on scattered records in recent publi-cations. All of these localities are west of the Mississippi River. Our records from Il-linois and Ohio are the first east of the Mis-sissippi. The Ohio specimens represent a considerable eastward extension of the known range of the species. It is our purpose here to discuss briefly the habitat of Z). cani-picola and to gather in one place all records in order to give a more complete picture of the known range. We have seen many specimens of Z). cani-picola in the American Museum of Natural History collected by Dr. Lee H. Herman in the course of his studies on the genus Blcdnis (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). These locality records were recently published (Herman 1986), but only in a table of Blediiis-Dys-cliirius associations where they may be overlooked by carabid workers. We thought it prudent to repeat them here and are in-debted to Dr. Herman for allowing us to do so. Further records were discovered by Dr. Yves Bousquet and published in a couple of recent papers on Dyscliirius and other carabids (Bousquet 1987, 1988). Readers are referred to Herman's work for a more detailed discussion of Bledius-Dyschirius associations. We note here only that Herman found Dyscliirius canipicola in association with twelve species of Bledius, at least five of which are known to occur in saline habitats. Lindroth (1961, p. 143) mentions the habitat of D. canipicola as "probably on alkaline places." Our speci-mens from Painesville, Ohio, were taken on a large salt flat. Dominant plants there, ac-
Distribution and habitat of Dyschirius campicola Lindroth (Coleoptera : Carabidae) with new state records for Ohio and Illinois, first records east of the Mississipi River
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