Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 494

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scientific name

Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866
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Genus Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866

Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866: 230. Type species: Stolonis notula Motschulsky, 1866 by monotypy. Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Greek stolonis (shoot) [feminine].

Prostolonis Mateu, 1976: 69. Type species: Prostolonis martinezi Mateu, 1976 by original designation. Synonymy established by Allen and Ball (1980: 529). Etymology. From the Latin prefix pro - (before, in front of) and the generic name Stolonis [q.v.] [feminine].

Diversity.

Twenty species in the Neotropical Region, one of them extending into southern United States.

Identification.

Will (2005) provided a key for the identification of the species of this genus.

Taxonomic Note.

This genus-group taxon has been ranked as a subgenus of Oxycrepis Reiche by Allen and Ball (1980) but as a distinct genus by Will (2005).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Prostolonis

Mateu 1976
1976
Loc

Prostolonis martinezi

Mateu 1976
1976
Loc

Stolonis

Motschulsky 1866
1866
Loc

Stolonis notula

Motschulsky 1866
1866
Loc

Stolonis

Motschulsky 1866
1866