Loxomerus

Taxonavigation

Loxomerus nebrioides (male), length about 17 mm

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: Migadopinae
Tribus: Migadopini
Genus: Loxomerus
Species (4): L. brevis – L. huttoni – L. katote – L. nebrioides

Name

• Loxomerus Chaudoir, 1842
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Loxomerus nebrioides Chaudoir, 1842 [=Heterodactylus nebrioides Guérin-Méneville, 1841], by monotypy

Synonyms

• Heterodactylus Guérin-Méneville, 1841 [junior homonym
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Heterodactylus nebrioides Guérin-Méneville, 1841, by monotypy
• Pristancylus Blanchard, 1853
  • Gender: masculine
  • Type species: Pristonychus brevis Blanchard, 1843, by subsequent designation by Jeannel (1938: 13)

Rejected synonyms

• Taenarthrus [rejected by Johns (2010)]

References

cited sources

• Blanchard, E. 1853: Description des insectes. Pp. 1–422 In: Dumont D’Urville, J.S.C. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l’Océanie sur les Corvettes l’Astrolabe et la Zélée; exécuté par ordre du roi pendant les années, 1837-1838-1839-1840, sous le commandement de M.J. Dumont D’Urville, capitaine de vaisseau; publié par ordre du gouvernement, sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, capitaine de vaisseau, commandant de la Zélée. Zoologie, par M.M. Hombron et Jacquinot. Volume IV. Paris. Internet Archive
• Broun, T. 1914: Descriptions of new genera and species of Coleoptera. Part II. New Zealand Institute bulletin, (1)(2): 79–142. Internet Archive BHL BUGZ
• Gourlay, E.S. 1960: Notes on New Zealand Insects and Records of Introduced Species. New Zealand entomologist, 2(5): 7–9. PDF
• Guérin-Méneville, F.-E. 1841: Description de quelques coléoptères nouveaux provenant des îles Auckland, de Triton-Bay, des îles Salomon et du Port-Famine, dans le Détroit de Magellan. Revue Zoologique par La Société Cuvierienne, 1841: 213–217. Internet Archive BHL
• Johns, P.M. 2010: Migadopini (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Migadopinae) of New Zealand. Records of the Canterbury Museum 24: 39–63. full volume (PDF) Reference page. 
• Larochelle, A.; Larivière, M.-C. 2007: Carabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): synopsis of supraspecific taxa. Fauna of New Zealand, (60)

Additional references

• Brookes, A.E. 1951: The Coleoptera of the Auckland and Campbell Islands. Cape Expedition series bulletin, (5) BUGZ
• Chaudoir, M. de 1842: Description de quelques genres nouveaux de la famille des carabiques. Bulletin de la Société impériale des naturalistes de Moscou, 15: 832–857. [not seen]
• Emberson, R.M. 1992: Tentative dates of publication of the zoology plates of Dumont d'Urville's Voyage au Pol Sud, with particular reference to the Coleoptera. Archives of natural history, 19: 251–260. ISSN: 0260-9541 DOI: 10.3366/anh.1992.19.2.251
• Emberson, R.M. 1993: The publication dates of the zoology plates of Dumont d'Urville's Voyage au Pol Sud; nomenclatorial implications for New Zealand beetles. New Zealand entomologist, 16: 17–21.
• Jeannel, R. 1938: Les migadopides (Coleoptera Adephaga), une lignée subantarctique. Revue française d'entomologie, 5: 1–55.
• Johns, P.M. 1974: Arthropoda of the subantarctic islands of New Zealand (1) Coleoptera: Carabidae Southern New Zealand, Patagonian, and Falkland Islands insular Carabidae. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 4: 283–302. Google books BUGZ
• Larsson, S.G. 1943: Une larve de Loxomerus des îles Auckland (Carabidae, Migadopini). Entomologiske meddelelser, 23: 420–431.
• Macfarlane, R.P., Maddison, P.A., Andrew, I.G., Berry, J.A., Johns, P.M., Hoare, R.J.B., Larivière, M.-C., Greenslade, P., Henderson, R.C., Smithers, C.N., Palma, R.L., Ward, J.B., Pilgrim, R.L.C., Towns, D.R., McLellan, I., Teulon, D.A.J., Hitchings, T.R., Eastop, V.F., Martin, N.A., Fletcher, M.J., Stufkens, M.A.W., Dale, P.J., Burckhardt, D., Buckley, T.R. & Trewick, S.A. 2010. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Hexapoda: Protura, springtails, Diplura, and insects. Pp. 233–467 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  PDF. Reference page. 
• Marris, J.W.M. 2000: The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Antipodes Islands, with comments on the impact of mice; and an annotated checklist of the insect and arachnid fauna. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 30: 169–195. DOI: 10.1080/03014223.2000.9517616 PDF

Links

• link to image of type species