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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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.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae