Oodinus Motschulsky, 1865

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 603

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scientific name	Oodinus Motschulsky, 1865
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Genus Oodinus Motschulsky, 1865 View in CoL View at ENA

Oodinus Motschulsky, 1865: 352. Type species: Oodinus piceus Motschulsky, 1865 by monotypy. Etymology. From the generic name Oodes [ q.v.] and the Latin suffix - inus (pertaining to) [masculine].

Oodiellus Chaudoir, 1882: 322. Type species: Oodiellus mexicanus Chaudoir, 1882 (= Anatrichis alutaceus Bates, 1882) designated by Bousquet and Larochelle (1993: 202). Synonymy established with doubt by Bates (1884: 269), confirmed by Spence (1983: 568). Etymology. From the generic name Oodes [ q.v.] and the Latin suffix - ellus (small) [masculine].

Diversity.

Ten species in the temperate and tropical areas of the Nearctic (two species), Neotropical, and Australian (one species in the Malay Archipelago) Regions.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
Family	Carabidae