Bembidion (Actedium), Motschulsky, 1864

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 364-365

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scientific name

Bembidion (Actedium)
status

 

Subgenus Actedium Motschulsky, 1864

Actedium Motschulsky, 1864: 182. Type species: Bembidium kuesteri Schaum, 1845 designated by Dallas (1866: 426). Etymology. From the Greek acte (seashore, coastal) and the suffix - idion (little), alluding to the habitat where the two small carabid species in the hands of Motschulsky were found (" les espèces vivent sur le bord de la mer ") [neuter].

Diversity.

Northern Hemisphere, with five species in the Nearctic (one species) and Palaearctic (four European and northern African species, one of them endemic to the Canary Islands) Regions.

Identification.

Lindroth (1963b: 265) treated the North American species.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Hexapoda

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Carabidae

Genus

Bembidion

Loc

Bembidion (Actedium)

Bousquet, Yves 2012
2012
Loc

Actedium

Motschoulsky 1864
1864
Loc

Bembidium kuesteri

Schaum 1845
1845