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 68FE3835-2401-43A7-96E2-CF26532F7A60 Subgenus 8 Hypherpes Chaudoir, 1838 Hypherpes Chaudoir, 1838: 8. Type species: Feronia castanea Dejean, 1828 designated by Bousquet (1984a: 4). Etymology. Uncertain, but more likely from the Greek ypherpo (to creep on secretly) rather than from the Greek hypo (under, beneath), phero (to bear, carry), and the Latin pes (foot) [masculine]. The name was proposed by Johann Friedrich Eschscholtz and made available by Chaudoir. Haplocoelus Chaudoir, 1838: 8. Type species: Feronia tristis Dejean, 1828 by original designation. Synonymy established by Csiki (1930: 578). Etymology (original). From the Greek haplo - (simple, single) and coilos (hollow, by extension sulcus, stria , impression), possibly alluding to the single laterobasal impression on each side of the pronotum of the adult [masculine]. Brachystilus Chaudoir, 1838: 10. Type species: Feronia californica Dejean, 1828 by original designation. Synonymy established implicitly by LeConte (1853a: 238), explicitly by Csiki (1930: 579). Etymology (original). From the Greek brachys (short) and stylos (pillar, column, by extension support) [masculine]. Note. Chaudoir (1838) used two different spellings for this taxon: Brachystilus (page 10) and Brachystylus (page 17). Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 176) acted as First Revisers and selected Brachystilus as the original spelling, so that the name Brachystylus Schoenherr , 1845, a valid taxon in Curculionidae , would not enter in homonymy. Holciophorus LeConte, 1853a: 249. Type species: Feronia atra Dejean, 1828 (= Feronia lama Menetries , 1843) by monotypy. Synonymy established by Van Dyke (1926a: 73). Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Greek holcio (rudder) and phoro (to bear, carry) [masculine]. Gonoderus Motschulsky, 1859a: 149. Type species: Feronia adoxa Say, 1823 designated by Lindroth (1966: 467). Synonymy established by Csiki (1930: 578). Hammatomerus Chaudoir, 1868b: 337. Type species: Feronia morionides Chaudoir, 1868 by monotypy. Synonymy established by Van Dyke (1926a: 73). Etymology. From the Greek hammatos (knot, noose, cord) and meros (part, by extension segment) [masculine]. Pheryphes Casey, 1920: 186. Type species: Pterostichus tarsalis LeConte, 1873 designated by Bousquet (1984a: 4). Synonymy established by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 176). Etymology. Anagram of the generic name Hypherpes [ q.v .] [masculine]. Diversity. Sixty species in eastern (two species) and western (58 species) North America. Identification. Casey (1913) reviewed most of the species then known (under planctus , californicus , menetriesi , congestus , and adoxus groups) but his key is very difficult to use. A taxonomic revision of the species is much needed. Taxonomic Note. Bousquet (1999) combined members of Leptoferonia , Anilloferonia , and Hypherpes into a single subgeneric taxon. Based on molecular sequence data, Will and Gill (2008) recovered these groups as monophyletic and suggested to recognize them as distinct subgenera.