Galerita Fabricius, 1801

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 839-840

Genus Galerita Fabricius, 1801

Galerita Fabricius, 1801: 214. Type species: Carabus americanus Linnaeus, 1758 designated by Latreille (1810: 426). Etymology. Uncertain, most likely from the Latin adjective galeritus, - a, um (wearing a hood) but possibly also from the Greek galeros (cheerful) [feminine]. According to Latreille (1804: 260), the name galerite was used formerly to designate a bird or a fish with some kind of crest. Note. The name Galerita Gouan, 1770 has been suppressed for the purposes of the Principles of Priority and Homonymy and the name Galerita Fabricius, 1801 placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology (ICZN 1968: 98).

Galeritula Strand, 1936: 168. Replacement name for Galerita Fabricius, 1801.

Galeritina Jeannel, 1949a: 1057. Replacement name for Galerita Fabricius, 1801.

Diversity.

Eighty-two species in the Western Hemisphere (58 species) and the Old World (24 species) currently arrayed in two subgenera, both represented in the Nearctic Region. Only eight species are found in North America and a single one ( Galerita bicolor ) is endemic.

Identification.

Reichardt (1967) revised the Western Hemisphere species and provided keys for their identification.