Badister Clairville, 1806

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 633

Genus Badister Clairville, 1806

Badister Clairville, 1806: 90. Type species: Carabus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 (= Carabus bullatus Schrank, 1798) by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek badister, - os (walker) [masculine].

Badistes Agassiz, 1846: 42. Unjustified emendation of Badister Clairville, 1806.

Distribution.

Forty-eight species in the boreal, temperate, and tropical areas in the Nearctic (14 species), Neotropical (five species in Mexico, the West Indies, and Peru), Australian (two species), Oriental (one species), Palaearctic (27 species), and Afrotropical (three species) Regions. The species are arrayed in three subgenera: Badister (23 species), Baudia (22 species), and Trimorphus Stephens (two Palaearctic species).

Identification.

Ball (1959) revised the North American species. No new North American species have been described since. Lindroth’s (1969a) key encompasses all North American species but Badister submarinus .