Pseudomorpha

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: 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

Pseudomorpha is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:[1]

Pseudomorpha alleni VanDyke, 1953
Pseudomorpha alutacea Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha augustata G.Horn, 1883
Pseudomorpha argentina Steinheil, 1869
Pseudomorpha arrowi Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha behrensi G.Horn, 1870
Pseudomorpha brevis Baehr, 1997
Pseudomorpha caribbeana Darlington, 1935
Pseudomorpha castanea Casey, 1909
Pseudomorpha champlaini Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha confusa Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha consanguinea Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha cronkhitei G.Horn, 1867
Pseudomorpha cylindrica Casey, 1889
Pseudomorpha excrucians Kirby, 1825
Pseudomorpha falli Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha gerstaeckeri Chaudoir, 1877
Pseudomorpha glabra Ogueta, 1967
Pseudomorpha hubbardi Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha insignis (Sloane, 1910)
Pseudomorpha lacordairei (Dejean & Boisduval, 1829)
Pseudomorpha laevissima (Chaudoir, 1852)
Pseudomorpha parallela VanDyke, 1943
Pseudomorpha peninsularis VanDyke, 1953
Pseudomorpha pilatei Chaudoir, 1862
Pseudomorpha ruficollis Casey, 1924
Pseudomorpha schwarzi Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha subangulata Baehr, 1997
Pseudomorpha tenebroides Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha tuxtla Liebherr & Will, 1997
Pseudomorpha vandykei Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha vicina Notman, 1925
Pseudomorpha vindicata Notman, 1925

References

"Pseudomorpha Kirby, 1825". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 19 Nov 2011.