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 Omophron Latreille, 1802 Scolytus Fabricius, 1790: 221 [junior homonym of Scolytus Geoffroy, 1762]. Type species: Carabus limbatus Fabricius, 1777 designated by Latreille (1810: 426). Etymology. Unknown [masculine]. Note. Latreille's designation was intended for Omophron Latreille but since Omophron is a replacement name for Scolytus Fabricius, both have the same type species and the type fixation for either applies also to the other (ICZN 1999: Article 67.8). Omophron Latreille, 1802: 89. Replacement name for Scolytus Fabricius, 1790. Etymology. From the Greek omophron (merciless, savage) [neuter, see Allen and Duff (1992: 85)]. Diversity. About 70 species in the Nearctic (11 species), Neotropical (six species in Middle America), Oriental (16 species), Palaearctic (16 species), and Afrotropical (20 species ) Regions. The species are arrayed in two subgenera: Omophron s.str. (about 60 species) and Phrator Semenov (eight species in the Mediterranean region and Africa).