Biology:Guatemalteca

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Guatemalteca
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Digital photo-illustration of a G. virgen specimen from near La Virgen, Costa Rica
Scientific classification e
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]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 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. 2.0 2.1 "Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004". https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8KX4C. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 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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