Badister (Baudia), Ragusa, 1884

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 635

Subgenus Baudia Ragusa, 1884

Baudia Ragusa, 1884: 3. Type species: Carabus peltatus Panzer, 1796 by monotypy. Etymology. From the surname of the Italian entomologist Flaminio Baudi di Selve [1821-1901] [feminine].

Diversity.

Twenty-two species in the Nearctic (six species), Neotropical (one species shared with North America), Australian (two species, one of them endemic to New Caledonia), Oriental (one species shared with the Australian Region), Palaearctic (11 species), and Afrotropical (three endemic species) Regions.