Didymochaeta (Apenes), LeConte, 1851

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 802

Subgenus Apenes LeConte, 1851

Apenes LeConte, 1851: 174. Type species: Cymindis lucidula Dejean, 1831 designated by Lacordaire (1854: 110).

Nominus Motschulsky, 1864: 240. Type species: Cymindis pustulata Dejean, 1831 (= Cymindis sinuatus Say, 1823) by original designation. Synonymy established by Gemminger and Harold (1868a: 124).

Malisus Motschulsky, 1864: 240. Type species: Cymindis variegata Dejean, 1825 (= Carabus pallipes Fabricius, 1792) by original designation. Synonymy established by Bates (1883a: 188).

Diversity.

Sixty-seven species in the temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Nearctic (nine species) and Neotropical (64 species) Regions.

Identification.

Horn (1882: 156) wrote a key to four of the species found in North America. A taxonomic revision of the subgenus is needed.