Phloeoxena Chaudoir, 1870

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 793

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Phloeoxena Chaudoir, 1870
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Genus Phloeoxena Chaudoir, 1870 View in CoL View at ENA

Phloeoxena Chaudoir, 1870a: 145. Type species: Phloeoxena picta Chaudoir, 1870 designated by Ball (1975: 178). Etymology. From the Greek phloios (bark) and xenos (stranger, guest) [feminine].

Diversity.

Thirty-four species in the temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Nearctic (one eastern species) and Neotropical (34 species) Regions. These species are arrayed in five subgenera: Oenaphelox Ball (nine species), Tacana Ball (one species), Phloeoxena s.str. (15 species), Oxephloena Shpeley and Ball (one species), and Ochropisus Bates (eight species).

Identification.

Shpeley and Ball (2001: 78-80) published a key for the identification of all known species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Phloeoxena Chaudoir, 1870

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Phloeoxena

Chaudoir 1870
1870
Loc

Phloeoxena picta

Chaudoir 1870
1870