Pterostichus (Pseudoferonina), Ball, 1965
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Subgenus Pseudoferonina Ball, 1965 View in CoL
Pseudoferonina Ball, 1965: 107. Type species: Pterostichus lanei Van Dyke, 1926 by original designation. Etymology. From the Greek pseudos (fallacy, lie) and the generic name Feronina [q.v.] [feminine].
Melvilleus Ball, 1965: 110. Type species: Platysma shulli Hatch, 1949 by original designation. Synonymy established by Bousquet (1985a: 254). Etymology. From the first name of Melville Hatch (see Scaphinotus hatchi ) [masculine].
Diversity.
Nine species in the Pacific Northwest.
Identification.
Bousquet (1985a) wrote a key for the identification of the species. Three new species were described subsequently (Bousquet 1992b; Bergdahl and Kavanaugh 2011).
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Pterostichus (Pseudoferonina)
| Bousquet, Yves 2012 |
Scaphinotus hatchi
| Beer 1971 |
Pseudoferonina
| Ball 1965 |
Melvilleus
| Ball 1965 |
Platysma shulli
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Pterostichus lanei
| Van Dyke 1926 |
Feronina
| Casey 1918 |