Broscodera Lindroth, 1961

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 308

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scientific name	Broscodera Lindroth, 1961
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Genus Broscodera Lindroth, 1961 View in CoL View at ENA

Broscodera Lindroth, 1961b: 150. Type species: Miscodera insignis Mannerheim, 1852 by original designation. Etymology. From the generic name Broscus [q.v.] and the Greek dere (neck, by extension pronotum) [feminine].

Diversity.

Northern Hemisphere, with four species in the Nearctic (one species) and Palaearctic (three species) Regions arrayed in two subgenera: Broscodera s.str. (one species) and Sinobrosculus Deuve (three species in Nepal, Gansu, and Sichuan).

Taxonomic Note.

Cladistic analysis of broscine genera performed by Roig-Juñent (2000) placed this genus as the sister-group of the Holarctic genus Miscodera Eschscholtz.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae