Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Author Bousquet, Yves Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bousquety1@yahoo.com text ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 1313-2970-245-1 FFFF52503A0AFF882450FFB66D45FF8E 578462 Genus Scarites Fabricius, 1775 Scarites Fabricius, 1775: 249. Type species: Scarites subterraneus Fabricius, 1775 designated by Andrewes (1929: 225). Etymology. From the Greek scaritis (gem of the color of the fish named scaros , probably a wrasse, in Pliny the Elder) [masculine]. Diversity. About 190 species (Lorenz 2005: 137-140) arrayed in four subgenera: Orientolobus Dostal (eight Indo-African species), Parallelomorphus Motschulsky (15 Old World species), Scarites s.str. (about 130 species), and Taeniolobus Chaudoir (about 40 Neotropical species). The genus is more diversified in term of species in the tropics of the Old World (about 60.5% of the world fauna) than anywhere else. Identification. Baenninger (1938) reviewed the species and provided keys for their identification. Three new North American species were subsequently described. Bousquet and Skelley (2010) published a key to all Nearctic species except Scarites lissopterus Chaudoir.