Taxonomic review of New World Tachyina (Coleoptera, Carabidae): descriptions of new genera, subgenera, and species, with an updated key to the subtribe in the Americas
Author
Boyd, Olivia F.
Author
Erwin, Terry L.
text
ZooKeys
2016
626
87
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.10033
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.626.10033
1313-2970-626-87
3DE781B6D48B432B97846703EA6B280B
Taxon
classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae
Genus
Lymnastis Motschulsky, 1862
Type species.
Lymnaeum indicum
(Motschuslky, 1851).
Diagnosis.
Mentum without foveae; labrum bilobed, covering mandibles; head with two pairs of supraorbital setae; elytra slightly truncate; terminal abdominal ventrite of male with two long, straight setae, female with four long, straight setae; body densely to sparsely setose.
Distribution.
This Old World genus is adventive in Hawaii and the Caribbean (
Erwin et al. 2002
).