Abax Bonelli, 1810

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 562

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Abax Bonelli, 1810
status

 

Genus Abax Bonelli, 1810

Abax Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type species: Carabus striola Fabricius, 1792 (= Carabus parallelepipedus Piller and Mitterpacher, 1783) designated by Westwood (1838: 4). Etymology. From the Latin abax (counting-board), possibly alluding to the shape of the pronotum of the adults [masculine].

Diversity.

Eighteen species in Europe, with one species extending into Turkey, arrayed in two subgenera: Abax s.str. (16 species) and Abacopercus Ganglbauer (two species). One species is adventive in eastern North America.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Abax Bonelli, 1810

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Abax

Bonelli 1810
1810
Loc

Carabus striola

Fabricius 1792
1792
Loc

Carabus parallelepipedus

Piller & Mitterpacher 1783
1783