Pseudanophthalmus

Pseudanophthalmus
Pseudanophthalmus major
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Trechinae
Tribe: Trechini
Subtribe: Trechina
Genus: Pseudanophthalmus
Jeannel, 1920

Pseudanophthalmus is a genus of cave beetle. Over 200 species have been described in the caves of ten states of the eastern United States.

Taxonomy

The genus was first named and described by René Jeannel in 1920. Along with the monobasic genus Neaphaenops (also Jeannel) from Kentucky caves, the dibasic genus Nelsonites (Valentine) from Tennessee and Kentucky, and Trechoblemus of Eurasia and North America (Ganglbauer), it forms the “Trechoblemus complex”.[1]

Species

References

  1. Barr, Jr., Thomas C. (1971), "Trechoblemus in North America, with a Key to North American Genera of Trechinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae)", Psyche 78:140-149.