Coptoderinella (Coptodera), Dejean, 1825

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 794

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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scientific name

Coptoderinella (Coptodera)
status

 

Subgenus Coptodera Dejean, 1825

Coptodera Dejean, 1825: 273. Type species: Coptodera festiva Dejean, 1825 designated by Hope (1838: 85).

Stenoglossa Chaudoir, 1848: 116. Type species: Stenoglossa variegata Chaudoir, 1848 (= Coptodera sallei Shpeley and Ball, 1994) by monotypy. Synonymy established by Shpeley and Ball (1994: 18). Etymology. From the Greek stenos (narrow) and glossa (tongue), alluding to the narrow ligula (" ligula longissima angustissimaque ") of the adult [feminine].

Diversity.

About 45 species in temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Western Hemisphere arrayed in 11 species groups. Five species are found in North America.

Identification.

Shpeley and Ball (1994) revised the species and provided a key for their identification.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Coptoderinella

Loc

Coptoderinella (Coptodera)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Coptodera sallei

Shpeley & Ball 1993
1993
Loc

Stenoglossa variegata

Chaudoir 1848
1848
Loc

Coptodera

Dejean 1825
1825
Loc

Coptodera festiva

Dejean 1825
1825