Blemus Dejean, 1821

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 330

Genus Blemus Dejean, 1821

Blemus Dejean, 1821: 16. Type species: Carabus discus Fabricius, 1792 designated by Westwood (1838: 5). Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Greek blema (a throw, cast; a shot, wound; a coverlet) [masculine]. The name was proposed by Franz Anton Ziegler and made available by Dejean.

Lasiotrechus Ganglbauer, 1891a: 187, 191. Type species: Carabus discus Fabricius, 1792 by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek lasios (hairy) and the generic name Trechus [q.v.], alluding to the densely pubescent elytra (" Nur die Flügeldecken pubescent ") of the adult [masculine].

Diversity.

Two Palaearctic species, one of them adventive in North America.

Identification.

The species found in North America was covered in Lindroth’s (1961a: 194) monograph.