Calosoma (Carabosoma), Gehin, 1885

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 176

Subgenus Carabosoma Gehin, 1885

Carabosoma Géhin, 1885: xxxii. Type species: Calosoma glabratum Dejean, 1831 designated by Breuning (1928a: 100). Etymology. From the generic name Carabus [q.v.] and the Greek soma (body), alluding to the resemblance of adults to those of some Carabus (" forme rappelant celles de certains carabes ") [neuter].

Acamegonia Lapouge, 1924: 38. Type species: Acamegonia peregrinatrix incerta Lapouge, 1924 (= Calosoma eremicola Fall, 1910) by monotypy. Synonymy established by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 72).

Diversity.

Western Hemisphere, with five species in the Nearctic (four species, one of them endemic) and Neotropical (four species, only one, Calosoma glabratum , endemic) Regions.