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 Pericompsus LeConte, 1852 Pericompsus LeConte, 1852a: 191. Type species: Bembidium ephippiatum Say, 1830 designated by LeConte (1859e: 553). Etymology. From the Greek peri (very) and compsos (elegant), probably alluding to the nice color of the body of adults of the three species LeConte had before him [masculine]. Diversity. New World, with about 70 species arrayed in three subgenera: Eidocompsus Erwin (13 Neotropical species), Pericompsus s.str. (about 45 species), and Upocompsus Erwin (nine Australian species). Identification. Erwin (1974b) revised the species and provided a key for their identification.