Anisodactylus (Gynandrotarsus), LaFerte-Senectere, 1841

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 647

Subgenus Gynandrotarsus LaFerte-Senectere, 1841

Gynandrotarsus LaFerté-Sénectère, 1841b: 202. Type species: Gynandrotarsus harpaloides LaFerté-Sénectère, 1841 by monotypy. Etymology. From the Greek gyne (female), andros (male), and tarsos (tarsus), probably alluding to the expanded first protarsomere of the female (" le premier article des tarses antérieurs des femelles ... une fois et demie aussi large et deux fois aussi long que l’article correspondant des mâles ") as in the male [masculine].

Triplectrus LeConte, 1847: 381. Type species: Harpalus rusticus Say, 1823 designated by Lindroth (1968: 843). Synonymy established by Casey (1914: 172). Etymology. From the Greek treis (three) and plectron (spur), alluding to the trifid apical spur of the protibia (" tibiae anticae calcare terminale trifido ") of the adult [masculine].

Diversity.

Ten species in North America (nine species) and Mexico (four species, one of them endemic, Anisodactylus darlingtoni Noonan).

Identification.

Noonan (1973) revised all species.