Guatemalteca
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Carabidae
Name
Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004:12
Type species
Guatemalteca virgen Erwin, 2004:12
Way of life
Size range – 4.3 mm to 5.2 mm; these small beetles occur along small rocky streams in the highlands and in wet leaf litter in the lowlands; they take cover in the day time under stones or stream side debris. Many adults have been collected in Guyane with flight intercept traps (FITs).
Distribution
Costa Rica; Guatemala; Guyane; México; Perú.
Notes
Currently, one described species is assigned to this genus; however, two additional new species are represented in the NMNH collection, one from Guyane and another from Perú. A taxonomic revision of the group is needed.
References
Erwin (2004)[1]; Bousquet (2012)[2]; Erwin et al. (2012)[3].
Taxon Treatment
- Erwin, T; Zamorano, L; 2014: A synopsis of the tribe Lachnophorini, with a new genus of Neotropical distribution and a revision of the Neotropical genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae) ZooKeys, 430: 1-108. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Erwin T (2004) The Beetle Family Carabidae of Costa Rica and Panamá: Descriptions of four new genera and six new species with notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera). Zootaxa 537: 1–18.
- ↑ Bousquet Y (2012) Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico (in three parts). ZooKeys 245: 1–1722. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.245.3416
- ↑ Erwin T, Micheli C, Hevel G (2012) The Beetle Family Carabidae of Guyane (French Guyana): The Tribes, Genera, and number of species known, with notes on their ways of life. (Insecta: Coleoptera: Adephaga). Le Coléoptériste 5: 1–88. [ACOREP, Paris]