Amara (Percosia), Zimmermann, 1832

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 574

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Amara (Percosia)
status

 

Subgenus Percosia Zimmermann, 1832

Percosia Zimmermann, 1832: 18. Type species: Amara sicula Dejean, 1831 designated by Hope (1838: 86). Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Latin adjective percosius (relative to Percosius, king of Cyzicus an ancient city of Mysia in Asia Minor) [feminine].

Spelaeobia Gistel, 1856: 358. Type species: Carabus patricius Duftschmid, 1812 (= Carabus equestris Duftschmid, 1812) by monotypy. Synonymy established by Bousquet (2002b: 47).

Diversity.

Six species in the boreal and temperate regions of North America (one species), Asia (two species), Europe (three species, two shared with Asia), and northern Africa (two endemic species).

Identification.

Hieke (1978) revised the species of this subgenus.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Amara

Loc

Amara (Percosia)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Percosia

C.C.A. Zimmermann 1832
1832
Loc

Amara sicula

Dejean 1831
1831
Loc

Carabus patricius

Duftschmid 1812
1812
Loc

Carabus equestris

Duftschmid 1812
1812