Pachyteles Perty, 1830

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 473

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416
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scientific name	Pachyteles Perty, 1830
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Genus Pachyteles Perty, 1830

Pachyteles Perty, 1830: 3. Type species: Pachyteles striola Perty, 1830 designated by Hope (1838: 99). Etymology. From the Greek pachys (thick) and telos (end), alluding to the incrassate last antennomere of the adult (" nomen datum ob antennas versus apicem incrassatas ") [masculine].

Diversity.

About 50 species ranging from southwestern North America to Chile and Uruguay.

Taxonomic Note.

Recent molecular data analyses (Moore 2008) suggest that Pachyteles s.str., Goniotropis , and Tropopsis Solier (two South American species), which have been treated as subgenera of Pachyteles (Ball and McCleve 1990: 90), are not so closely related as suspected from the morphological data. These groups are recognized here as distinct genera.