Bembidion Laticolle

''Bembidion'' is the largest genus of beetles in the family Carabidae by number of species.Carl H. Lindroth. ''The Carabidae (Coleoptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark''. Leiden - Copenhagen: Brill - Scandinavian Science Press, 1985. . P. 129-199. All species are small (less than 7.5 mm) and move very fast. Most of them live close to water. The genus has a biantitropical distribution, meaning they are found in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, but not in the tropics.Philip Jackson Darlington. ''Biogeography of the Southern End of the World''. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1965. P. 22, 45. In warmer regions it is substituted by closely related ''Tachys'' and other genera.

Taxonomy

There have been many attempts to divide it into smaller genera, most notably by René Jeannel in 1941 and by G.G. Perrault in 1981, but none of them have been generally accepted.

This genus is divided into numerus subgenera, some of which are elevated to full genus rank by various authors; as noted above, however, no universally accepted way of splitting the genus exists yet. ''Bembidion'' subgenera include:
*''Bembidion (Bembidion)''
*''Bembidion (Eurytrachelus)'' (sometimes in ''Odontium'')
*''Bembidion (Notaphus)''
*''Bembidion (Ocydromus)''
*''Bembidion (Odontium)''
*''Bembidion (Zecillenus)''

References and notes

External links

Tree of Life
A list of species

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