Guatemalteca
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]
| 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 |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004[1] |
| Type species | |
| Guatemalteca virgen Erwin, 2004 | |
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]
References
- 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.
- "Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- 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. doi:10.3897/zookeys.430.8094.
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