CARABIDAE, Latreille, 1802

Robert H. Turnbow, Jr. & Thomas, Michael C., 2008, An annotated checklist of the Coleoptera (Insecta) of the Bahamas, Insecta Mundi 2008 (34), pp. 1-64 : 10-15

CARABIDAE

Acupalpus longulus Dejean

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Aephnidius (Aephnidius) ciliatus Mutchler

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Peck 2005)

Agonum coptoderoides Darlington

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Agonum decorum Say

ANDROS: Atala Coppice (FSCA); Forfar Field Station (FSCA)

Agonum elongatulum (Dejean) [= Agonum floridanum (LeConte) ]

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station ( RHTC); NORTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Anaulacus ciliatus Mutchler

GREAT INAGUA: Northwest Point (FSCA)

Anatrichis minuta Horn

ANDROS: Cargill Creek (FSCA)

Anatrichis oblonga Horn

LONG ISLAND: Deadman’s Cay (AMNH)

Apenes coriacea Chevrolat

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Peck 2005)

Apenes delicata laevior Darlington

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality (AMNH; MCZC; Darlington 1953)

Apenes lata Darlington

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station ( FSCA) ; Mangrove Cay (Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Apenes opacus LeConte

ELEUTHERA: Spanish Wells ( Wickham 1895)

Apenes parallela inagua Darlington

[GREAT?] INAGUA: no specific locality (MCZC; Darlington 1953)

Apenes parallela parallela (Dejean)

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station ( FSCA) ; ELEUTHERA: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); Spanish Wells ( Wickham 1895) [this latter record was recorded as Apenes opacus LeConte but was a misidentified example of the present species, see Darlington (1953: 13-14)]; NEW PROVIDENCE: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); SAN SALVADOR [ WATLING ISLAND]: no specific locality (Darlington 1953)

Apenes scobifera melaena Ball and Shpeley

MAYAGUANA ISLAND: Atlantic Missile Range (FSCA)

Apenes scobifera Darlington, n. ssp.

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road, N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA) ; Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA) ; South Bay road ( FSCA)

Apenes sulcicollis (Jacquelin du Val)

NEW PROVIDENCE: no specific locality (Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Apenes n. sp.

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road, N21.10813, W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA) ;

Aspidoglossa mexicana (Chaudoir) [= Aspidoglossa vulnerata Putzeys ]

ANDROS: Forfar Field station ( RHTC) ; CAT ISLAND: Arthurs Town (Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Axinopalpus n. sp.

GREAT INAGUA: Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Badister flavipes LeConte

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Badister reflexus LeConte [= Badister seclusus Blatchley ]

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station ( FSCA; RHTC); Owens Town ( FSCA) ; CAT ISLAND: Arthurs Town (Darlington 1953; MCZC) ; GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA) ; Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA) ; South Bay road ( FSCA) ; 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA)

Bembidion chevrolati (Gemminger and Harold)

CAT ISLAND: Arthurs Town (Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Bembidion fastidiosum LaFerté-Sénectère

GREAT INAGUA: South Bay road ( FSCA)

Bembidion viridicolle LaFerté-Sénectère

ANDROS: Atala Coppice (RHTC); Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC); Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA); Mastic Point (RHTC); GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point (FSCA); Northwest Point (FSCA); Salt Pond Hill (FSCA); 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Bembidion sp. or spp.

ANDROS: Pigeon Cay ( Anderson 1996); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Bradycellus tantillus (Dejean)

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Calleida bahamensis Darlington

NORTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Calleida decora (Fabricius)

GRAND BAHAMA: Eight Mile Rock (Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Calosoma splendidum Dejean

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC)

Chlaenius floridanus Horn

[GREAT?] INAGUA: no specific locality (Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Chlaenius maxillosus Horn

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Cicindela boops Dejean

GREAT INAGUA: Matthew Town (RHTC); Northwest Point (FSCA); Salt Pond Hill (FSCA); South Bay road (FSCA); 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill (FSCA); entrance Union Creek Reserve (RHTC)

Cicindela marginata Fabricius

ANDROS: Conch Sound ( RHTC); Money Point ( RHTC); Red Bays ( RHTC) ; ELEUTHERA: Spanish Wells ( Wickham 1895); GREAT INAGUA: Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA); South Bay road ( FSCA); 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA); NORTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( Vaurie 1952b); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( Vaurie 1952b)

Cicindela trifasciata trifasciata Fabricius [= Cicindela tortuosa Dejean ]

ANDROS: Calabash Bay (RHTC); Forfar Field Station (RHTC); Money Point (RHTC); Red Bays (RHTC); ELEUTHERA: Spanish Wells ( Wickham 1895); GREAT INAGUA: Matthew Town (RHTC); Salt Pond Hill (FSCA); 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill (FSCA); South Bay road (FSCA); SAN SALVADOR: near French Bay ( Elliott and Salbert 1978); between Storrs’s Lake and Granny Lake ( Elliott and Salbert 1978); near Watling’s Castle ( Elliott and Salbert 1978); “southeastern tip” ( Elliott and Salbert 1978)

Clivina americana Dejean

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Nichols 1988)

Clivina biguttata Putzeys

GREAT INAGUA: Northwest Point (FSCA)

Clivina fasciata Putzeys [= Dyschirius insularis Jacquelin du Val ]

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Nichols 1988)

Clivina morula LeConte

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Coptodera picea Dejean

ANDROS: Bowen Sound (RHTC); Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA; RHTC)

Discoderus beauvoisi (Dejean)

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Peck 2005)

Dyschiriodes larochellei Bousquet

ANDROS: Atala Coppice ( FSCA) ; Forfar Field Station ( FSCA) ; Maidenhair Coppice ( FSCA) ; Owens Town ( FSCA) ; GREAT INAGUA: Matthew Town ( RHTC) ; vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA) ; Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA)

Dyschiriodes sublaevis Putzeys

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point (FSCA); 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Dyschiriodes erythrocerus (LeConte)

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Elaphropus sp.

ANDROS: Pigeon Cay ( Anderson 1996)

Euphorticus pubescens aeneolus Bates

ANDROS: Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA)

Euphorticus sp.

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (RHTC)

Galerita lecontei Dejean

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Halocoryza arenaria (Darlington)

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Nichols 1988)

Harpalus pensylvanicus (DeGeer)

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Lebia analis Dejean

ANDROS: Atala Coppice (RHTC); Forfar Field Station (FSCA)

Lebia bitaeniata Chevrolat

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC)

Lebia cyanea Dejean

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Lebia esurialis Casey

ANDROS: Forfar Field station (RHTC); Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA)

Lebia sp. near melanoptera Chaudoir

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA)

Lebia sp.

GREAT INAGUA: north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA); Salt Pond Hill ( RHTC)

Loxandrus celeris (Dejean)

CAT ISLAND: Arthurs Town (Darlington 1953; MCZC); [ GREAT?] INAGUA: no specific locality (Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Loxandrus cubanus Tschitschérine

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA) ; Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA)

Loxandrus floridanus LeConte

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Loxandrus rectangulus LeConte

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA) ; 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA)

Megacephala carolina (Linnaeus)

SAN SALVADOR: Old Naval Base at Graham’s Harbour ( Elliott and Salbert 1978)

Menidius amandus amandus Newman

ANDROS: Cactus Coppice (RHTC); Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC); Maidenhair Coppice (RHTC); S. of Fresh Creek (FSCA); Stafford Creek (RHTC)

Menidius amandus discoideus Schaupp

NORTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Menidius amandus n. ssp.

GREAT INAGUA: strand S of Middle Point ( RHTC) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA; RHTC); Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA; RHTC); South Bay road ( FSCA) ; 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA) ; entrance Union Creek Reserve ( RHTC)

Micratopus insularis Darlington

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Micratopus sp.

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA); north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA)

Oodinus pseudopiceus Bousquet

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA); Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA); Pigeon Cay (as Oodinus piceus Motschulsky ( Anderson 1996)); GREAT INAGUA: Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Oxydrepanus rufus (Putzeys)

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA)

Paratachys sp. 1

ANDROS: Atala Coppice ( FSCA) ; Forfar Field Station ( FSCA) ; Maidenhair Coppice ( FSCA) ; Owens Town ( FSCA) ; GREAT INAGUA: Matthew Town ( RHTC) ; vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA) ; Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA) ; strand S of Middle Point ( RHTC)

Paratachys sp. 2

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA); Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA); Owens Town (FSCA)

Paratachys sp. 3

GREAT INAGUA: Matthew Town (RHTC); Northwest Point (FSCA); Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Paratachys sp. 4

GREAT INAGUA: Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Pentagonica flavipes flavipes LeConte

ANDROS: Atala Coppice ( FSCA); Forfar Field Station ( FSCA; RHTC); Maidenhair Coppice ( FSCA); no specific locality (Darlington 1953; USNM) ; GREAT INAGUA: north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Pentagonica nigricornis Darlington

ANDROS: Maidenhair Coppice ( FSCA) ; GREAT INAGUA: north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA)

Perigona nigriceps (Dejean)

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality (AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Platynus coptoderoides (Darlington)

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station ( Liebherr 1987) ; EXUMA: Simon’s Point ( Liebherr 1987); NEW

PROVIDENCE: Nassau, Blue Hills ( Liebherr 1987); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( Liebherr 1987)

Plochionus pallens (Fabricius) [= Menidius pallens (Fabricius) ]

ELEUTHERA: Spanish Wells ( Wickham 1895)

Pogonodaptus rostratus Darlington

GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA)

Scarites marinus Nichols

ELEUTHERA: no specific locality ( Nichols 1986; USNM)

Scarites sp. probably subterraneus Fabricius

ELEUTHERA: Spanish Wells ( Wickham 1895)

Selenophorus alternans Dejean

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Peck 2005)

Selenophorus chalybeus Dejean

ANDROS: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); CAT ISLAND: no specific locality (Darlington 1953);

LONG ISLAND: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); NEW PROVIDENCE: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Selenophorus cubanus cubanus Darlington

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA)

Selenophorus discopunctatus Dejean

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station ( FSCA; RHTC) ; CAT ISLAND: no specific locality (Darlington 1953; MCZC) ; GRAND BAHAMA: no specific locality (Darlington 1953; MCZC) ; GREAT INAGUA: Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA) ; South Bay road ( FSCA)

Selenophorus flavilabris Dejean

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Peck 2005)

Selenophorus integer Fabricius

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC)

Selenophorus palliatus (Fabricius)

NORTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI : no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Selenophorus propinquus Putzeys

ANDROS: Forfar Field station (RHTC); Owens Town (FSCA)

Selenophorus pyritosus Dejean [= Selenophorus alternans pyritosus Dejean ]

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA); ELEUTHERA: no specific locality (Darlington 1953; MCZC; USNM); NEW PROVIDENCE: no specific locality (Darlington 1953; MCZC)

Selenophorus sinuatus Gyllenhal

ANDROS: Atala Coppice (FSCA); Cargill Creek (FSCA); Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC); Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA); Pigeon Cay ( Anderson 1996); CAT ISLAND: no specific locality (Darlington 1953);

GREAT INAGUA: Salt Pond Hill (FSCA); GREAT ABACO: Bahama Star Groves (FSCA); NORTH

BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Selenophorus striatopunctatus Putzeys

ANDROS: Atala Coppice (RHTC); Forfar Field Station (FSCA; RHTC); Owens Town (FSCA); SOUTH

BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Semiardistomis viridis (Say)

“ BAHAMAS ”: no other locality information ( Nichols 1988)

Stenocrepis duodecimstriata (Chevrolat)

ANDROS: Atala Coppice (RHTC); Forfar Field Station (RHTC); Maidenhair Coppice (RHTC); CAT

ISLAND: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); GREAT INAGUA: Northwest Point ( FSCA); Salt Pond Hill ( FSCA); [ GREAT?] INAGUA: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Stenocrepis mexicanus Chevrolat

GREAT INAGUA: Northwest Point (FSCA)

Stenolophus infuscatus LeConte

GREAT INAGUA: Matthew Town (RHTC); vic. Middle Point (FSCA); Northwest Point (FSCA); Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Stenolophus ochropezus (Say)

ANDROS: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); [ GREAT?] INAGUA: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Tachys (Isotachys) occultator Casey [provisional determination after Darlington (1953)]

ANDROS: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); CAT ISLAND: no specific locality (Darlington 1953);

INAGUA ISLANDS: no specific locality (Darlington 1953); SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Tachys (Mioptachys) xanthopus (Dejean)

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Tachys (Tachys) coruscus LeConte [provisional determination after Darlington (1953)]

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Tachys (Tachys) vorax LeConte [provisional determination after Darlington (1953)]

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Tachys sp. or spp.

ANDROS: Forfar Field Station (FSCA); Maidenhair Coppice (FSCA); Pigeon Cay ( Anderson 1996)

Tachys cf. vittiger LeConte

GREAT INAGUA: Matthew Town (RHTC); strand S of Middle Point (RHTC); vic. Middle Point (FSCA); Northwest Point (FSCA); Salt Pond Hill (FSCA); South Bay road (FSCA); 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)

Tetragonoderus intersectus (Germar)

SOUTH BIMINI: no specific locality ( AMNH; Darlington 1953)

Thalpius cubanus Chaudoir

ANDROS: Atala Coppice ( FSCA) ; Forfar Field Station ( FSCA) ; Maidenhair Coppice ( FSCA) ; Owens Town ( FSCA) ; GREAT INAGUA: vic. Middle Point ( FSCA) ; north coast road N21.10813 W73.60196 ( FSCA) ; Northwest Point ( FSCA)

Thalpius dorsalis Brullé

GREAT INAGUA: 2-3 mi. N Salt Pond Hill (FSCA)