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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Harpalina » Discoderus

Genus Discoderus

Classification · Pronunciation · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Works Cited
Carabid.. - Discoderus impotens Discoderus? - Discoderus robustus Discoderus amoenus Discoderus? - Discoderus robustus Unknown Carabid - Discoderus impotens Unknown Carabid - Discoderus impotens Discoderus robustus Discoderus robustus? - Discoderus robustus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Harpalinae
Supertribe Harpalitae
Tribe Harpalini
Subtribe Harpalina
Genus Discoderus
Pronunciation
A frequent anglicized pronunciation is dis-KOD-er-us with all vowels short and accent is on second syllable. [PWM note]
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Needs revision(1). See comment under "Numbers".
Explanation of Names
Discoderus LeConte 1853
'disk-like pronotum'
Numbers
Current literature: 19 species in our area of which several Casey species are expected to be synonymized. 28 total(1) species for the New World.

UPDATE 12/2022: The current manuscript revision of the genus Discoderus by Messer & Raber reports 24 valid species for the New World which include four new species, 19 new synonyms, and a subset of only 10 species (one of them new) that occur in the Nearctic north of Mexico.
Range
Southern Canada to Panama [PWM, unpublished]. In our area, all species except D. parallelus are restricted to the southwestern quadrant of USA(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
Contributed by v belov on 8 October, 2009 - 8:31pm
Additional contributions by Peter Messer
Last updated 17 December, 2022 - 9:49am

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