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 Brasiella Rivalier, 1954 Brasiella Rivalier, 1954: 261. Type species: Cicindela argentata Fabricius, 1801 by original designation. Etymology. Unknown [feminine]. Diversity. Thirty-eight Neotropical species (Lorenz 2005: 58), of which one extends into southwestern North America. Faunistic Note. The Cuban Brasiella viridicollis (Dejean) is known in North America from a single specimen, probably a stray, collected in the Florida Keys in 1983 (Schiefer 2005: 551; Pearson et al. 2006: 151). The species is not considered here as a North American entity.