Piosoma LeConte, 1847

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 685

publication ID

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

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scientific name

Piosoma LeConte, 1847
status

 

Genus Piosoma LeConte, 1847 View in CoL View at ENA

Piosoma LeConte, 1847: 374. Type species: Piosoma setosum LeConte, 1847 by monotypy. Etymology (original). From the Greek pio (fat) and soma (body), alluding to the chubby shape of the adults (" corpus crassum ") [neuter].

Diversity.

One North American species in the temperate regions.

Identification.

Lindroth (1968: 745-746) treated the species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Piosoma LeConte, 1847

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Piosoma

LeConte 1847
1847
Loc

Piosoma setosum

LeConte 1847
1847