Myas Sturm, 1826

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 503

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.245.3416

publication LSID

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scientific name

Myas Sturm, 1826
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Genus Myas Sturm, 1826 View in CoL View at ENA

Myas Sturm, 1826: 6, 171. Type species: Abax chalybaeus Palliardi, 1825 by monotypy. Etymology. Uncertain, possibly from the Latin myax, - acis (kind of pearl mussels in Pliny the Elder) or the Greek mys, myos (mouse), or myia (fly) [masculine]. The name was proposed by Franz Anton Ziegler and first described by Dejean (1828: 423-424).

Diversity.

Thirty-two species (Lorenz 2005: 265-266) in the temperate regions of North America (two species), Asia (29 species), and Europe (one species), arrayed in two subgenera (Bousquet 1999: 90): Myas s.str. for the European species and Trigonognatha for the other ones.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Loc

Myas Sturm, 1826

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Myas

Sturm 1826
1826
Loc

Abax chalybaeus

Palliardi 1825
1825