| Guatemalteca | |
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| Digital photo-illustration of a G. virgen specimen from near La Virgen, Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| 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 [update] , 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 National Museum of Natural History collection. [3]
The genus's distribution includes cloud forests from Mexico to Peru, [1] including Costa Rica, Guatemala, French Guiana, Mexico, and Peru. [3]
