Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 156-157

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scientific name	Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826
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Genus Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826 View in CoL View at ENA

Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826: 17. Type species: Carabus elevatus Fabricius, 1787 by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek scaphos (barque, nacelle, skiff) and notos (back, upper surface), presumably alluding to the shape of the pronotum of the sole species known to Dejean which has the sides of the pronotum markedly turned out (" bords latéraux du corselet très-déprimés, relevés ") giving the impression of a small boat [masculine].

Scaphonotus Agassiz, 1846: 332. Unjustified emendation of Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826.

Diversity.

Fifty-five species in the boreal and temperate regions of North America and the Sierra Madre Occidental in Mexico.

Identification.

Roeschke (1907a) reviewed the species known at the time.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae