Prosopogmus

Prosopogmus sp., copyright Kipling Will.

Belongs within: Harpalinae.

Prosopogmus is an Australasian genus of ground beetles with deeply impressed clypeo-ocular sulci on the head, a subcordiform to quadrate pronotum with two pairs of marginal setae, and transverse sulci on abdominal ventrites 3–6.

<==Prosopogmus Chaudoir 1865 [incl. Ceneus Chaudoir 1865, Hormochilus Chaudoir 1874, Ophryosternus Chaudoir 1873]LM87
    |--*P. impressifrons (Chaudoir 1865) [=Feronia (*Prosopogmus) impressifrons]LM87
    |--P. austrinus Sloane 1895LM87
    |--P. boisduvalii (Castelnau 1867) [=Feronia boisduvalii]LM87
    |--‘Pterostichus (Poecilus)’ coracinus Erichson 1842 (see below for synonymy)LM87
    |--‘Feronia (*Ceneus) coracina’ Chaudoir 1865 non Pterostichus (Poecilus) coracinus Erichson 1842LM87
    |--P. delicatulus Tschitschérine 1898LM87
    |--P. foveipennis (Macleay 1871)LM87 [=Argutor foveipennisLM87, Simodontus foveipennisB90]
    |--P. harpaloides (Chaudoir 1874) [=Feronia (Notonomus) harpaloides]LM87
    |--P. insperatus Sloane 1896LM87
    |--P. interstitialis Sloane 1923LM87
    |--P. leai Sloane 1920LM87
    |--P. monochrous (Chaudoir 1865) (see below for synonymy)LM87
    |--P. namoyensis Sloane 1895LM87
    |--P. occidentalis (Macleay 1888) [=Simodontus occidentalis]LM87
    |--P. oodiformis (Macleay 1871)LM87 [=Argutor oodiformisLM87, Simodontus oodiformisB90]
    |--P. opacidermis Sloane 1923LM87
    |--P. punctifer Sloane 1920 [=P. punctiferus]LM87
    |--P. reichei (Castelnau 1867) [=Feronia reichei]LM87
    |--P. rubricornis Sloane 1895LM87
    |--P. sulcatulus (Chaudoir 1873) [=*Ophryosternus sulcatulus]LM87
    |--P. suspectus (Chaudoir 1878) [=Feronia (Ceneus) suspecta]LM87
    |--P. tasmanicus Sloane 1920LM87
    `--P. yarrensis Sloane 1915LM87

Prosopogmus monochrous (Chaudoir 1865) [=Feronia (Ceneus) monochroa, *Hormochilus monochrous; incl. Eccoptogenius feronoides Castelnau 1867, Feronia inedita Castelnau 1867, Harpalis quadraticollis Castelnau 1867]LM87

‘Pterostichus (Poecilus)’ coracinus Erichson 1842 [incl. Hypherpes chalybeipennis Chaudoir 1843, Prosopogmus chalybeipennis, Tibarisus niger Macleay 1871, Feronia vilis Castelnau 1867]LM87

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[B90] Blackburn, T. 1890. Notes on Australian Coleoptera, with descriptions of new species. Part IV. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales, series 2, 4 (3): 707–746.

[LM87] Lawrence, J. F., B. P. Moore, J. E. Pyke & T. A. Weir. 1987. Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra.

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