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 Carabus Linnaeus, 1758 Carabus Linnaeus, 1758: 413. Type species: Carabus granulatus Linnaeus, 1758 (ICZN 1954). Etymology. From the Greek carabos (an animal in Aristotle) [ma sculine ]. The animal in question, named Locusta in Latin, is uncertain. According to Camus (1783: 259), carabos was a grasshopper, to Cuvier (1803: 369, 370) a crawfish, and to Latreille (1812: 142) a Cerambycidae . Olivier (1795: [35] 1) reported that the name Carabus came from the scientific name Scarabaeus slightly modified. Diversity. About 910 species (Lorenz 2005: 72-114) in North America (14 species), Mexico (two species), and the Palaearctic (about 895 species) and Oriental (about five species) Regions. Identification. Van Dyke (1944) reviewed the North American species and provided a key for the identification of all species except Carabus auratus . Lindroth (1961a: 30-42) covered all but two species ( Carabus finitimus and Carabus forreri ).