Mecyclothorax

Mecyclothorax is a genus of beetles that contains over 400 described species or subspecies, mostly from the Hawaiian Islands[1][2][3] and Tahiti[4] and Moorea,[5] French Polynesia. Additional radiations have evolved in Queensland, Australia,[6] New Guinea[7] and New Caledonia.[8] The genus has been divided into five subgenera: Eucyclothorax Liebherr 2018 of Australia, Qecyclothorax Liebherr 2018 of Queensland, Australia, Meonochilus Liebherr & Marris, 2009 of New Zealand, Phacothorax Jeannel 1944 of New Caledonia, and the more widely distributed subgenus Mecyclothorax Sharp 1903 [in Australia, the Sundas, New Zealand, the Society Islands (Moorea and Tahiti), and Hawaii]. The adelphotaxon to Mecyclothorax is hypothesized to consist of the genera associated with Amblytelus Blackburn, also distributed in Australia, and therefore the evolutionary history of Mecyclothorax commenced in Australia.

Mecyclothorax
Mecyclothorax toretore female holotype.
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Coleoptera
Family:
Carabidae
Subfamily:
Psydrinae
Genus:
Mecyclothorax

Sharp, 1903

List of Selected Species

References
  1. James K. Liebherr (2011). "The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Moriomorphini) of West Maui, Hawaii: taxonomy, biogeography, and conservation". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 58 (1): 15–76. doi:10.1002/mmnd.201100005.
  2. "Mecyclothorax Sharp, 1903". Carabidae of the World. 2015. Retrieved 24 Dec 2015.
  3. Liebherr, James K. (2015). The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Haleakalā, Maui: keystone of a hyperdiverse Hawaiian radiation. https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=6074: ZooKeys 544.CS1 maint: location (link)
  4. Liebherr, James K. (2013). "The Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) of Tahiti, Society Islands". ZooKeys (322): 170 pp. doi:10.3897/zookeys.322.5492. PMC 3760220. PMID 24003312.
  5. Liebherr, James K. (2012). "The first precinctive Carabidae from Moorea, Society Islands: new Mecyclothorax spp. (Coleoptera) from the summit of Mont Tohiea". ZooKeys (224): 37–80. doi:10.3897/zookeys.224.3675. PMC 3487645. PMID 23129989.
  6. Baehr, Martin (2003). "Psydrine ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Psydrinae), excluding Amblytelini, of eastern Queensland rainforests. 65-109". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 49: 65–109.
  7. Liebherr, James K. (2017). "Review of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Moriomorphini)from Papua New Guinea with descriptions of five new species". The Coleopterists Bulletin. 71 (4): 679–703. doi:10.1649/0010-065x-71.4.679.
  8. Liebherr, James K. (2018). "Cladistic classification of Mecyclothorax Sharp (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Moriomorphini) and taxonomic revision of the New Caledonian subgenus Phacothorax Jeannel". Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift. 65: 1–63. doi:10.3897/dez.65.21000.
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