Pseudomorpha

Pseudomorpha vandykei

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Adephaga

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Harpalinae
Tribus: Pseudomorphini
Genus: Pseudomorpha

Subgenera (2): Austropseudomorpha – Pseudomorpha

Overview of species: P. alleni – P. alutacea – P. argentina – P. arrowi – P. augustata – P. behrensi – P. brevis – P. caribbeana – P. castanea – P. champlaini – P. confusa – P. consanguinea – P. cronkhitei – P. cylindrica – P. excrucians – P. falli – P. gerstaeckeri – P. huachinera – P. hubbardi – P. insignis – P. lacordairei – P. parallela – P. patagonia – P. penablanca – P. peninsularis – P. pilatei – P. pima – P. ruficollis – P. santacruz – P. santarita – P. schwarzi – P. subangulata – P. tenebroides – P. vandykei – P. vicina – P. vindicata

Name

Pseudomorpha Kirby, 1823: 98

Type species: Pseudomorpha excrucians Kirby, 1823 (monotypy)

Synonyms

• Axinophorus Dejean, [in Dejean and Boisduval], 1829: 60.
  • Type species: Axinophorus lecontei Dejean, 1829 (= Pseudomorpha excrucians Kirby, 1823) (designated by Notman 1925: 30)
• Drepanus Dejean, 1831: 434.
  • Type species: Axinophorus lecontei Dejean, 1829 (= Pseudomorpha excrucians Kirby, 1823) (designated by Hope 1838: 109).
• Heteromorpha Kirby, 1823
• Heteromorphus Chaudoir, 1852
• Heteromorphus Desmarest, 1851-22
• Pseudomorphus Desmarest, 1851-22

References

Primary references

• Kirby, W. 1825 [1823]. A description of some insects which appear to exemplify Mr. William S. MacLeay's doctrine of affinity and analogy. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 14: 93–110, Pl. 3. BHL Reference page. 
• Baehr, M. 1997: Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian region 2. The genera Pseudomorpha Kirby, Adelotopus Hope, Cainogenion Notman, Paussotropus Waterhouse, and Cryptocephalomorpha Ritsema. Taxonomy, phylogeny, zoogeography (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). Spixiana, supplement (23) BHL Reference page. 
• Baehr, M. 2009: New and rare species of the pseudomorphine genera Sphallomorpha Westwood, Adelotopus Hope, and Pseudomorpha Kirby mainly from far Northern Territory, Australia (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Pseudomorphinae). 12th supplement to the “Revision of the Pseudomorphinae of the Australian Region”. Spixiana 32(2): 231–253. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Erwin, T.L. & Amundson, L.M. 2013. Beetles that live with ants (Carabidae, Pseudomorphini, Pseudomorpha Kirby, 1825): A revision of the santarita species group. ZooKeys 362: 29–54. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.362.6300 Reference page. 
• Erwin, T.L. & Geraci, C.J. 2008. New genera of Pseudomorphini (Insecta: Coleoptera, Carabidae) in the Western Hemisphere. Pp. 77–100 in: Penev, L.; Erwin, T.L.; Assmann, T. (eds): Back to the Roots and back to the future: towards a new synthesis between taxonomic, ecological, and biogeographical approaches in carabidology. Proceedings of the XIII European Carabidologists Meeting, Blagoevgrad, August 20-24, 2007. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria. [1] Reference page. 

Additional references

• Liebherr, J.K.; Kavanaugh, D.H. 1985: Ovoviviparity in carabid beetles of the genus Pseudomorpha (Insecta: Coleoptera). Journal of natural history 19(6): 1079–1086. DOI: 10.1080/00222938500770681 Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

Links

• Pseudomorpha – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Pseudomorpha – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Vernacular names

English: western false-form beetles

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