Carabidae Latreille, 1802

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Family Carabidae Latreille, 1802 Tribe Harpalini Bonelli, 1810

Selenophori group

Recognition. Harpalini , subtribe Harpalina , beetles with the characteristic series of setigerous punctures in elytral striae 2 and 5 or in striae 2, 5, and 7.

Remarks. The supergenus Selenophori in subtribe Harpalina was first proposed by van Emden (1953), who studied the Neotropical Harpalini . This genus-group, also known collectively as the “selenophorines”, was expanded to the world fauna by Noonan (1976: 41, 1985a, b) who provided a diagnosis for the group based on critical analyses of character states. The selenophorine genera are distinguished in identification keys for the world fauna by Noonan (1985a), the Neotropical Region by Reichardt (1977), the Nearctic Region by Ball and Bousquet (2000), and the West Indies by Shpeley et al. (2017). See recent summaries of the Nearctic Selenophori by Ball and Bousquet (2000: 91, 95) and the West Indian Selenophori by Shpeley et al. (2017: 11).

Within the tribe Harpalini , the stenolophine beetle Philodes alternans (LeConte) of eastern USA and Canada exhibits series of setigerous punctures associated with elytral striae 2, 5, and 7. This species is readily distinguished from the selenophorines by its depressed habitus, reduced eyes, and much longer seriate setae.