Badister Clairville, 1806

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

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scientific name	Badister Clairville, 1806
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Treatment

Subgenus Badister Clairville, 1806

Badister Clairville, 1806: 90. Type species: Carabus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 (= Carabus bullatus Schrank, 1798) by monotypy.

Amblychus Gyllenhal, 1810: 74. Type species: Carabus bipustulatus Fabricius, 1792 (= Carabus bullatus Schrank, 1798) designated by Jeannel (1942: 1000). Etymology. From the Greek amblys (blunt, obtuse) [masculine].

Diversity.

Twenty-four species in North America (eight species, one of them extending into the Bahamas), Mexico (three species, one of them endemic), Peru (one species), and the Palaearctic Region (14 species).

Identification.

Erwin and Ball (2011: 407-409) published a key to the Western Hemisphere species.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Hexapoda
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae
Genus	Badister