Microthylax Rivalier, 1954

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 216-217

publication ID

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

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A3C6A9BD-77DC-F732-38CF-C7D06DC6C631

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scientific name

Microthylax Rivalier, 1954
status

 

Genus Microthylax Rivalier, 1954 View in CoL View at ENA

Microthylax Rivalier, 1954: 260. Type species: Cicindela digueti Horn, 1897 by original designation. Etymology. From Greek micros (small, little) and thylax (bag, sack, pouch), alluding to the small size of the endophallus (" pénis... avec un sac interne très peu développé et occupant seulement la portion subterminale du pénis ") [masculine].

Diversity.

Three species (five species-group taxa) in United States and Cuba (one species) and Mexico (two species), including Baja California.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Microthylax Rivalier, 1954

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Microthylax

Rivalier 1954
1954
Loc

Cicindela digueti

W. Horn in W. Horn; Becker & Hoege 1897
1897