Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 710

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

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scientific name

Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829
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Genus Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829

Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829: 62. Type species: Amblygnathus cephalotes Dejean, 1829 designated by Brullé (1835b: 10). Etymology (original). From the Greek amblys (blunt, obtuse) and gnathos (jaw, by extension mandible), alluding to the obtuse mandibles (" mandibules … obtuses ") of adults of the four species Dejean had before him [masculine].

Diversity.

Twenty-four species in temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Nearctic (four species, only one endemic) and Neotropical (23 species) Regions, including the West Indies (three species, one of them endemic).

Identification.

Ball and Maddison (1987) revised the species and provided a key for their identification.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Amblygnathus Dejean, 1829

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Amblygnathus

Dejean 1829
1829
Loc

Amblygnathus cephalotes

Dejean 1829
1829