Notiobia Perty, 1830

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 636

Genus Notiobia Perty, 1830

Notiobia Perty, 1830: 13. Type species: Notiobia nebrioides Perty, 1830 by monotypy. Etymology (original). From the Greek adjective notios (wet, moist, damp) and bios (life), alluding to the damp habitat where the species in the hands of Perty lived ("habitatione verosimile demptum est") [feminine].

Diversity.

About 95 species in the Nearctic (eight species), Neotropical (47 species), Australian (28 species), and Afrotropical (ten species) Regions arrayed in three subgenera: Anisotarsus (53 species), Diatypus Murray (ten Ethiopian species), and Notiobia s.str. (26 Neotropical species).