a harpaline member of the supergenus Selenophori (Discoderus, Selenophorus, etc.) based on apparent seriate punctures atop the elytra.

I agree that this is absolutely a valid issue. While on trips, we often blacklight late into the night, then have maybe 50 to 100 critters to shoot for the whole day's coll. effort, before having to get up early and do it all over again. When on trips with Ed Riley, he usually provides dets. that over come the lack of measurements... Maybe I can kill the carabids separately and measure them postmortem. There simply isn't enough time to measure every spmn. Thanks, Mike

I wish your co-worker Ed Riley would give us way more species determinations. As a mutual friend of Robert Davidson, tell him I said so! That would make need for measurements less of an issue and also greatly reduce our head scratching when it comes to the difficult southwestern fauna. It is my impression that no more than 50% of your fine carabid photographs have been identified to species level.

But carabids aren't his main group of interest. On yr one of our South Texas survey, Ed regularly determined (nearly) all my pix. By yr two, not so much... Ed's riding herd on two plus million bugs on pins in the TAMUIC, a high percentage of which are beetles. Brian Raber is the main carabid person in our little group, but he's an engineer w/ kids in college and all his free time is occupied with his significant TX carabid coll... Personally, I find carabids rather challenging. There's a modest coll. nr. me at UT. Over time, I'll probably shoot more of it. Thanks for all your help. Mike

Wendy Moore at UoAz are way too busy with other chores to routinely identify southwestern carabids in a timely fashion. To hasten the process for you if you wish, think of me as a backup expert willing to accept mailed specimens for accurate species determination. See my profile for instructions and mutual understanding. Thanks Mike.

(P.S. Robert Davidson tells me he recently found additional specimens of Pentagonica marshalli in TX which supports my assertion of same regarding one of your images from TX: Photo #431587)

Most of what I coll is under permit to go to TX institutions. I don't have a personal coll to speak of. I'll work on measurements of what I field shoot and will shoot more of what's determined in the UTIC. Thanks, Mike
PS: I'll ask Dr. John Abbott, UTIC curator, if he'd be willing to send you spmns for determination.

Mike is you field work under employment with a university and/or are you collecting on protected lands and so specimens need to be deposited in an institution under agreement of permit? What about collecting specimens off of protected grounds?

Camp Maxey is a Nat'l Guard property that UT is under contract to survey. So. TX surveys were conducted on State, Federal, and NGO properties. I coll. locally on City, County, and Univ. properties.
It's said that some 95% of TX is private property. Land owners here generally don't want anyone looking for rare biota on their property... I certainly could find "non-protected" areas to coll. on, but enjoy having the institutional support and status of participating in official surveys, which allows me to collaborate with other experts, plus they generally have a budget to cover expenses as well as a range of coll. gear to employ. Mike