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
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Subgenus
Tanaocarabus Reitter, 1896
Tanaocarabus
Reitter, 1896: 135. Type species:
Carabus sylvosus
Say, 1823 designated by Breuning (1933b: 895). Etymology. From the Greek
tanaos
(outstretched, long) and the generic name
Carabus
[
q.v
.], probably alluding to the elongate shape of the adults [masculine].
Neocarabus
Lapouge, 1931: 569 [junior homonym of
Neocarabus
Bengtsson, 1927]. Type species:
Carabus taedatus
Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy.
Durangocarabus
Imura, 2002: 141. Type species:
Carabus forreri
Bates, 1882 by original designation. Synonymy established by Deuve (2004: 195). Etymology. From the name of the state Durango in Mexico and the generic name
Carabus
[
q.v
.] [masculine].
Diversity.
Five species in North America (four species) and Mexico (two species). One of Mexican species,
Carabus hendrichsi
Bolivar, Rotger, and Coronado, is endemic to the Sierra Madre Oriental.