Nomius Laporte, 1835

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 470-471

Genus Nomius Laporte, 1835

Nomius Laporte, 1835: 144. Type species: Nomius graecus Laporte, 1835 (= Morio pygmaeus Dejean, 1831) by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek nomas (roving), alluding to the presence in Greece of a species which Laporte believed was closely related to members of the tropical genus Ozaena (" cet insecte est très-voisin des Ozaena et ... la découverte en Europe d’un insecte qui rentre dans un groupe naturel d’insectes jusqu’ici propres aux parties les plus chaudes du globe ") [masculine].

Aplochile LeConte, 1846b: 208. Type species: Morio pygmaeus Dejean, 1831 by monotypy. Etymology (original). From the Greek haplos (simple) and cheilos (lip, by extension labrum) [feminine].

Haplochile LeConte, 1850: 204. Unjustified emendation of Aplochile LeConte, 1846.

Diversity.

Three species, two in tropical Africa and one in North America, Mexico, southern Europe, and the Middle East.

Identification.

The species found in North America was treated in Lindroth’s (1961a: 175) monograph.