Calathus Bonelli, 1810

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 724

Genus Calathus Bonelli, 1810

Calathus Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica. Type species: Carabus cisteloides Panzer, 1793 (= Carabus fuscipes Goeze, 1777) designated by Curtis (1827: plate 184). Etymology. Possibly from the Greek calathos (basket) [masculine].

Diversity.

About 185 species (Lorenz 2005: 396-399) in North America (eight species, one of them adventive), Mexico (14 species), Ethiopia (17 species), and the Palaearctic Region (about 145 species) arrayed in 11 subgenera: Calathus s.str. (50 species), Lauricalathus Machado (19 species endemic to the Canary Islands), Trichocalathus Bolívar y Pieltain (three species endemic to the Canary Islands), Neocalathus (45 species), Amphyginus Haliday (two European species), Tachalus Ball and Nègre (one Mexican species), Bedelinus Ragusa (one species in Europe and northern Africa), Lindrothius Kurnakov (13 species restricted to Caucasia), Acalathus (11 species), Synuchidius Apfelbeck (one southeast European species), and Thermoscelis Putzeys (one Caucasian species). About 40 species, including all those from Ethiopia, are currently unplaced (Lorenz 2005: 398-399).

Identification.

Ball and Nègre (1972) revised the Western Hemisphere species and provided a key for their identification.