Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 494

Genus Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866

Stolonis Motschulsky, 1866: 230. Type species: Stolonis notula Motschulsky, 1866 by monotypy. Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Greek stolonis (shoot) [feminine].

Prostolonis Mateu, 1976: 69. Type species: Prostolonis martinezi Mateu, 1976 by original designation. Synonymy established by Allen and Ball (1980: 529). Etymology. From the Latin prefix pro - (before, in front of) and the generic name Stolonis [q.v.] [feminine].

Diversity.

Twenty species in the Neotropical Region, one of them extending into southern United States.

Identification.

Will (2005) provided a key for the identification of the species of this genus.

Taxonomic Note.

This genus-group taxon has been ranked as a subgenus of Oxycrepis Reiche by Allen and Ball (1980) but as a distinct genus by Will (2005).