Amblygnathus Dejean

Shpeley, Danny, Hunting, Wesley & Ball, George E., 2017, A taxonomic review of the Selenophori group (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Harpalini) in the West Indies, with descriptions of new species and notes about classification and biogeography, ZooKeys 690, pp. 1-195 : 16

Genus Amblygnathus Dejean

Amblygnathus Dejean, (1829: 62). TYPE SPECIES: Amblygnathus cephalotes Dejean (designation by Brullé 1835a: 10).- Gemminger and Harold 1868: 251.- Csiki 1932: 1193.- Blackwelder 1944: 48.- Noonan 1976: 42.- Reichardt 1977: 428.- Erwin and Sims 1984: 441.- Noonan 1985a: 44.- Ball and Maddison 1987: 196.- Lorenz 1998: 356.- Lorenz 2005: 378.- Bousquet 2012: 1134.

Recognition.

Within the Selenophori group, this genus is readily recognized by the enlarged head, and concave clypeus, with basal membrane of the labrum exposed medially. Additionally, the outer elytral intervals sparsely to moderately densely setose.

Included species.

Only three species of Amblygnathus are recorded in the West Indies: A. cephalotes Dejean (cephalotes species group), A. puncticollis (Putzeys) (iripennis species group) and A. gilvipes gilvipes Ball & Maddison (suturalis species group).