Broscus

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Broscinae
Tribus: Broscini
Genus: Broscus
Subgenera (2): B. (Broscus) – B. (Nepalobroscus)

Overview of species: B. anatolicus – B. angustulus – B. asiaticus – B. bipilifer – B. canaliculatus – B. cephalotes – B. costatus – B. crassimargo – B. declivis – B. glaber – B. insularis – B. jaegeri – B. karelinii – B. kozlovi – B. laevigatus – B. nobilis – B. politus – B. portugalus – B. potanini – B. przewalskii – B. punctatostriatus – B. punctatus – B. rugicollis – B. rutilans – B. semistriatus – B. taurulus – B. uhagoni
Name

Broscus Panzer, 1813

Type species: Broscus cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758)

Synonyms

Cephalotes Bonelli, 1810 (non Cephalotes Latreille, 1802)
Nepalobroscus Habu, 1973
Pseudocupis Voet, 1769

References
Primary references

Panzer, G.W.F. 1813. Index entomologicus: sistens omnes insectorum species in G.W.F. Panzeri Fauna insectorum Germanica descriptas. Felsecker, Norimbergae.: Pars I. Eleutherata: i–viii; 1–216. BHL Reference page. : 62

Habu, A. 1973: On a collection of Carabidae from Nepal made by the Hokkaido University Scientific Expedition to Nepal Himalaya, 1968 (I). Bulletin of the National Institute of Agricultural Science (C), 27: 81–132. PDF
Kryzhanovskij, O.L. 1995: New and poorly known Carabidae from North, Central and East Asia (Coleoptera). Zoosystematica Rossica, 3(2): 265–272. PDF
Schmidt, J. 1996: [Descriptions of new species of Carabidae from Nepal (3): genera Broscus, Deltomerodes, Xestagonum (Insecta: Coleoptera).] Reichenbachia, 31(2): 143–154. [not seen]
Schmidt, J. 1998: Descriptions of new species and subspecies of Carabidae from Nepal (4): genera Broscus, Deltomerodes, Xestagonum (Insecta: Coleoptera). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 58(1): 5–28. [not seen]
Schmidt, J.; Arndt, E. 2000: The genus Broscus Panzer in the Central Himalaya (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini). Entomologische Abhandlungen, 59(1): 55–71. PDF
Wrase, D.W.; Schmidt, J. 2010: A new species of the genus Broscus Panzer, 1813 from Turkey (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Broscini). Entomologische Blätter 106: 415-420. ResearchGate.

Links

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

Vernacular names
čeština: Střevlík
русский: Головач

Broscus is a genus of ground beetle native to the Palearctic, the Nearctic, the Near East and North Africa. It contains the following species:[1]

Broscus aberti Jedlicka, 1965
Broscus asiaticus Ballion, 1871
Broscus augustulus Semenov, 1891
Broscus bipilifer Andrewes, 1927
Broscus canaliculatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1829
Broscus cephalotes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Broscus costatus Morvan, 1980
Broscus crassimargo Wollaston, 1865
Broscus declivis Semenov, 1889
Broscus glaber Brulle, 1836
Broscus insularis Piochard de la Brulerie, 1868
Broscus jaegeri J. Schmidt, 1996
Broscus karelini Zoubkoff, 1837
Broscus kozlovi Kryzhanovskij, 1995
Broscus laevigatus Dejean, 1828
Broscus nobilis Dejean, 1828
Broscus politus Dejean, 1828
Broscus potanini Semenov, 1889
Broscus przewalskii Semenov, 1889
Broscus punctatostriatus Fischer von Waldheim, 1829
Broscus punctatus Dejean, 1828
Broscus rutilans Wollaston, 1862
Broscus semistriatus Dejean, 1828
Broscus taurulus Andrewes, 1927
Broscus uhagoni Bolivar & Pieltain, 1912

References

"Broscus Panzer, 1813: 62". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 24 Jun 2011.