Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Author Bousquet, Yves Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada bousquety1@yahoo.com text ZooKeys 2012 2012-11-28 245 1 1722 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416 1313-2970-245-1 FFFF52503A0AFF882450FFB66D45FF8E 578462 Genus Hyboptera Chaudoir, 1873 Hyboptera Chaudoir, 1873b: 161. Type species: Hyboptera angulicollis Chaudoir, 1873 designated by Reichardt (1973: 48). Etymology (original). From Greek hybos (hump, tubercle) and pteron (wing, by extension elytron), alluding to the presence of linear series of tubercles on the elytra (" elytra ... supra seriatim tuberculata ") of the adult [feminine]. Diversity. Seven species are known (Erwin 2004: 33) in the Neotropical Region, one of which extends into southern Texas. Identification. Reichardt (1973) reviewed the species then known and published a key for their identification. Subsequently, two new species were described by Erwin (2004).