Myas (Argutor), Dejean, 1821

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 504

Subgenus Argutor Dejean, 1821

Argutor Dejean, 1821: 11. Type species: Carabus vernalis Panzer, 1795 designated by Curtis (1837: plate 666). Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Latin argutor (to stand about, to trample on) [masculine]. The name was proposed by Johann Karl Megerle von Mühlfeld and made available by Dejean.

Lagarus Chaudoir, 1838: 10. Type species: Carabus vernalis Panzer, 1795 by original designation. Etymology (original). From the Greek lagaros (loose, thin, by extension spindly), alluding to the body shape of adults of the two species Chaudoir included in this taxon [masculine].

Gluptodactylus Gautier des Cottes, 1869: 147. Type species: Carabus vernalis Panzer, 1795 by monotypy. Etymology (original). From the Greek glyptos (carved) and dactylos (finger), alluding to the presence of a sulcus on the male first tarsomeres (" ♂ les premiers articles des tarses ... sillonnés en dessus ") [masculine].

Aulacotarsus Reiche [in Reiche and Lallemant], 1872: 16. Unnecessary replacement name for Gluptodactylus Gautier des Cottes, 1869. Etymology. From the Greek aulacos (furrow) and tarsos (tarsus) [masculine].

Eolagarus Tschitschérine, 1899d: 287. Type species: Lagarus dulcis Bates, 1883 by monotypy. Synonymy established, under the name Lagarus Chaudoir, implicitly by Lindroth (1966: 501), explicitly by Lafer (1984: 19). Etymology. From the Greek eos (east) and the generic name Lagarus [q.v.] [masculine].

Pseudargutor Casey, 1918: 324. Type species: Feronia erythropus Dejean, 1828 (= Loxandrus commutabilis Motschulsky, 1866) by original designation. Synonymy established, under the name Lagarus Chaudoir, by Lindroth (1966: 501). Etymology (original). From the Greek pseudos (fallacy, lie) and the generic name Argutor [q.v.] [masculine].

Pseudolagarus Lutshnik, 1922: 70. Type species: Platysma leconteianum Lutshnik, 1922 (= Loxandrus commutabilis Motschulsky, 1866) by original designation. Synonymy established, under the name Lagarus Chaudoir, by Lindroth (1966: 501). Etymology (original). From the Greek pseudos (fallacy, lie) and the generic name Lagarus [q.v.] [masculine].

Paralagarus Lutshnik, 1922: 71. Type species: Platysma chunghusorum Lutshnik, 1922 (= Pterostichus sulcitarsis Morawitz, 1863) by original designation. Synonymy established, under the name Lagarus Chaudoir, by Lafer (1984: 19). Etymology. From the Greek para (near, beside) and the generic name Lagarus [q.v.] [masculine].

Diversity.

Thirteen species in the boreal and temperate areas of the Nearctic (three species, one of them adventive) and Palaearctic (11 species) Regions.

Identification.

Bousquet and Webster (2004) reviewed the Nearctic species.

Taxonomic Note.

This subgenus was known until the late 1980s under the name Lagarus Chaudoir.