Brachypelus Putzeys 1866

Kavanaugh, David H. & Rainio, Johanna, 2016, Twenty-six New Species of Predaceous Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Adephaga: Carabidae) from Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar, Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 63 (7), pp. 201-268 : 205

Genus Brachypelus Putzeys 1866

Jeannel (1946) included only two species in his treatment of this precinctive Malagasy genus, and Basilewsky (1976) described three additional species. Bulirsch et al. (2005) described eight new species and provided a key to all species known at that time. Finally, Bulirsch and Moravec (2009) described one more new species, B. janaki , bringing the total number of known species to 14. Members of the new species described below are easily distinguish from those of all the other described species on the basis of their unique combination of features compared with excellent key characters provided by Bulirsch et al. (2005).