Broscus Panzer, 1813

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 308-309

Genus Broscus Panzer, 1813

Cephalotes Bonelli, 1810: Tabula Synoptica [junior homonym of Cephalotes Latreille, 1802]. Type species: Carabus cephalotes Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent monotypy in Panzer (1813: 62). Etymology. From the Greek cephalotos (headed) [masculine].

Broscus Panzer, 1813: 62. Replacement name for Cephalotes Bonelli, 1810. Etymology. Uncertain, possibly a contracted form of the Greek bibrosco (eat, gnaw, consume) [masculine].

Diversity.

Twenty-three species in the Palaearctic Region, one of them adventive in eastern North America.

Identification.

Larochelle and Larivière (1989a) provided a description of the external structures as well as the male and female genitalia of the species found in North America.

Taxonomic Note.

Cladistic analysis of broscine genera performed by Roig-Juñent (2000) placed this genus as the sister-group of the temperate Asian genus Craspedonotus Schaum.