Opisthius Kirby, 1837

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 128

publication ID

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

publication LSID

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scientific name

Opisthius Kirby, 1837
status

 

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Opisthius Kirby, 1837: 60. Type species: Opisthius richardsoni Kirby, 1837 by monotypy. Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Greek opisthen (behind) or opisthios (hinder) [masculine]. Bousquet and Smetana (1996: 218) suggested that the name possibly reflect Kirby’s assignment of Opisthius to follow Elaphrus in his paper.

Diversity.

One North American species.

Identification.

The species was treated in Lindroth’s (1961a: 88-90) monograph on the Carabidae of Canada and Alaska.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Opisthius Kirby, 1837

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Opisthius

Kirby 1837
1837
Loc

Opisthius richardsoni

Kirby 1837
1837
Loc

Opisthius

Kirby 1837
1837
Loc

Elaphrus

Fabricius 1775
1775