Quammenis

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Taxonavigation

Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Carabidae

Name

Quammenis Erwin, 2000 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile

• Quammenis Erwin, 2000:279

Type species

Quammenis spectabilis Erwin, 2000:280

Way of life

Size range – 6.5 mm to 7.0 mm; these beetles occur on steep or vertical wet rocky surfaces with mosses and ferns and other hygrophilous plants in cloud forests (e.g., hygropetric habitats such as vertical waterfalls, seeps, wet rocks, etc. (see Fig. 2)).

Distribution

Costa Rica.

Notes

Currently, one described species is assigned to this genus.

References

Erwin (2000); Bousquet (2012).

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

Images

Figure 1. Quammenis spectabilis Erwin. Live individual in its natural hygropetric habitat in Costa Rica. Photo credit: K. Taro Eldredge, University of Kansas.  Figure 2. Natural hygropetric habitat in Costa Rica of Quammenis spectabilis Erwin with Andrew Short and his University of Kansas grad students Crystal Maier and Clay McIntosh. Photo credit: K. Taro Eldredge, University of Kansas.  Figure 19–22. 19 Pseudophorticus sp. (all species in South America are either undescribed or placed in Euphorticus G. Horn). Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP132538 from Pakitza, Perú 20 Selina westermanni Motschulsky. Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP132536 from China Bay, Sri Lanka 21 Stenocheila lacordairei Laporte de Castelnau. Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP133801 from Chapada dos Guimãres, Brazil 22 Quammenis spectabilis Erwin. Digital Photo-illustration. Habitus, dorsal aspect, based on specimen ADP100513 from Estacíon Zurqui, Costa Rica.