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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Genus
Blemus Dejean, 1821
Blemus
Dejean, 1821: 16. Type species:
Carabus discus
Fabricius, 1792 designated by Westwood (1838: 5). Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Greek
blema
(a throw, cast; a shot, wound; a coverlet) [masculine]. The name was proposed by Franz Anton Ziegler and made available by Dejean.
Lasiotrechus
Ganglbauer, 1891a: 187, 191. Type species:
Carabus discus
Fabricius, 1792 by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek
lasios
(hairy) and the generic name
Trechus
[
q.v
.], alluding to the densely pubescent elytra ("
Nur die
Fluegeldecken
pubescent
") of the adult [masculine].
Diversity.
Two Palaearctic species, one of them adventive in North America.
Identification.
The species found in North America was covered in
Lindroth's
(1961a: 194) monograph.