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 Platynus Bonelli, 1810 Platynus Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type species: Carabus angusticollis Fabricius, 1801 (= Carabus assimilis Paykull, 1790) by subsequent monotypy in Germar (1817: 303). Lyrophorus Chaudoir [in Chevrolat], 1846: 522. Type species: Carabus angusticollis Fabricius, 1801 (= Carabus assimilis Paykull, 1790) by monotypy. Etymology (original). From the Greek lyra (lyre) and phoro (to bear, carry) [masculine]. Note. This name is usually credited to Seidlitz (1872: 15 [Arten]) but it was made available by Chaudoir many years earlier. Limodromus Motschulsky, 1850a: 70. Type species: Carabus angusticollis Fabricius, 1801 (= Carabus assimilis Paykull, 1790) designated by Motschulsky (1865: 316). Etymology. Probably from the Greek prefix limo - (meadow) and dromos (running) [masculine]. Diversity. Sixteen species in the Nearctic (nine species, of which one extends into Mexico) and Palaearctic (seven species) Regions.