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 Subgenus Badister Clairville, 1806 Badister Clairville, 1806: 90. Type species: Carabus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 (= Carabus bullatus Schrank, 1798) by monotypy. Amblychus Gyllenhal, 1810: 74. Type species: Carabus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 (= Carabus bullatus Schrank, 1798) designated by Jeannel (1942: 1000). Etymology. From the Greek amblys (blunt, obtuse) [masculine]. Diversity. Twenty-four species in North America (eight species, one of them extending into the Bahamas), Mexico (three species, one of them endemic), Peru (one species), and the Palaearctic Region (14 species). Identification. Erwin and Ball (2011: 407-409) published a key to the Western Hemisphere species.