Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 710

Genus Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829

Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829: 62. Type species: Amblygnathus cephalotes Dejean, 1829 designated by Brullé (1835b: 10). Etymology (original). From the Greek amblys (blunt, obtuse) and gnathos (jaw, by extension mandible), alluding to the obtuse mandibles (" mandibules … obtuses ") of adults of the four species Dejean had before him [masculine].

Diversity.

Twenty-four species in temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Nearctic (four species, only one endemic) and Neotropical (23 species) Regions, including the West Indies (three species, one of them endemic).

Identification.

Ball and Maddison (1987) revised the species and provided a key for their identification.