Calosoma (Callistenia), Lapouge, 1929

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 183

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

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scientific name

Calosoma (Callistenia)
status

 

Subgenus Callistenia Lapouge, 1929

Callistenia Lapouge, 1929b: 2. Type species: Calosoma moniliatum LeConte, 1852 designated by Jeannel (1940: 170). Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Greek callos (beauty) and stenos (narrow) [feminine].

Isostenia Lapouge, 1929b: 2. Type species: Calosoma wilkesii LeConte, 1852 by subsequent monotypy in Lapouge (1931: 380). Synonymy established by Jeannel (1940: 170).

Diversity.

Fourteen North American species in the western half of the continent.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Calosoma

Loc

Calosoma (Callistenia)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Callistenia

Lapouge 1929
1929
Loc

Isostenia

Lapouge 1929
1929