Guatemalteca

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Guatemalteca
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Digital photo-illustration of a G. virgen specimen from near La Virgen, Costa Rica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Guatemalteca
Erwin, 2004 [1]
Type species
Guatemalteca virgen
Erwin, 2004

Guatemalteca is a genus of beetle in the family Carabidae. [2] As of 2017, its only described species is its type species, Guatemalteca virgen. [2] When Terry Erwin named the genus in 2004, he placed it in the tribe Lachnophorini; [1] in 2014 he and Laura S. Zamorano placed it in the subtribe Eucaerina. [3]

In 2014, Erwin and Zamorano wrote that there were two additional undescribed species in this genus represented in the NMNH collection. [3]

The genus's distribution includes cloud forests from Mexico to Peru, [1] including Costa Rica, Guatemala, French Guiana, Mexico, and Peru. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Erwin, Terry L. (14 June 2004). "The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica and Panam : Descriptions of four new genera and six new species with notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera)". Zootaxa. 537 (1): 1–18. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.537.1.1 .
  2. 1 2 "Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  3. 1 2 3 Erwin, Terry; Zamorano, Laura S. (1 August 2014). "A synopsis of the tribe Lachnophorini, with a new genus of Neotropical distribution and a revision of the Neotropical genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys (430): 22. Bibcode:2014ZooK..430....1E. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.430.8094 . PMC   4141162 . PMID   25152663.