Feronia (Morphnosoma), Lutshnik, 1915

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 516

Subgenus Morphnosoma Lutshnik, 1915

Morphnosoma Lutshnik, 1915b: 424. Type species: Carabus vulgaris Linnaeus sensu auctorum (= Carabus melanarius Illiger, 1798) by original designation. Etymology. From the Greek morphnos (kind of eagle in Pliny the Elder) and soma (body) [neuter].

Omaseidius Jeannel, 1942: 781. Type species: Carabus vulgaris Linnaeus sensu auctorum (= Carabus melanarius Illiger, 1798) by original designation.

Diversity.

Two Palaearctic species ( Pterostichus alexeji Zamotajlov and Kryzhanovskij and Pterostichus melanarius with three subspecies), one of them adventive in North America. The status of Pterostichus brevistylis Jeannel, described from Switzerland, remains unclear.

Taxonomic Note.

Sasakawa and Kubota (2006) combined members of Petrophilus Chaudoir (type species: Feronia findelii Dejean, 1828), Euryperis Motschulsky (type species: Euryperis uralensis Motschulsky, 1850), Morphnosoma , Euferonia , Feroperis Lafer (type species: Feronia jungens Tschitschérine, 1893), and Moritapterus Berlov (type species: Pterostichus thunbergi Morawitz, 1862) into a single subgeneric taxon, Petrophilus Chaudoir, 1838.