Galerita Fabricius, 1801

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 839-840

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scientific name

Galerita Fabricius, 1801
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Genus Galerita Fabricius, 1801

Galerita Fabricius, 1801: 214. Type species: Carabus americanus Linnaeus, 1758 designated by Latreille (1810: 426). Etymology. Uncertain, most likely from the Latin adjective galeritus, - a, um (wearing a hood) but possibly also from the Greek galeros (cheerful) [feminine]. According to Latreille (1804: 260), the name galerite was used formerly to designate a bird or a fish with some kind of crest. Note. The name Galerita Gouan, 1770 has been suppressed for the purposes of the Principles of Priority and Homonymy and the name Galerita Fabricius, 1801 placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1968: 98).

Galeritula Strand, 1936: 168. Replacement name for Galerita Fabricius, 1801.

Galeritina Jeannel, 1949a: 1057. Replacement name for Galerita Fabricius, 1801.

Diversity.

Eighty-two species in the Western Hemisphere (58 species) and the Old World (24 species) currently arrayed in two subgenera, both represented in the Nearctic Region. Only eight species are found in North America and a single one ( Galerita bicolor ) is endemic.

Identification.

Reichardt (1967) revised the Western Hemisphere species and provided keys for their identification.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Galerita Fabricius, 1801

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Galeritula

Strand 1936
1936
Loc

Galerita

Fabricius 1801
1801
Loc

Galerita

Fabricius 1801
1801
Loc

Galerita

Fabricius 1801
1801
Loc

Galerita

Fabricius 1801
1801
Loc

Galerita

Fabricius 1801
1801
Loc

Carabus americanus

Linnaeus 1758
1758