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.
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Myas Sturm, 1826
Bousquet, Yves 2012 |
Myas
Sturm 1826 |
Abax chalybaeus
Palliardi 1825 |