Catapiesis

Catapiesis is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about eight described species in Catapiesis, found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.^[1][2]

Catapiesis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Pterostichinae
Tribe:	Cratocerini
Subtribe:	Catapieseina
Genus:	Catapiesis Solier, 1835
Synonyms
Axinophorus Gray, 1832 Basoleia Westwood, 1835 Basolia Chaudoir, 1854 Hololissus Mannerheim, 1837 Liobasis Agassiz, 1846

Species

These eight species belong to the genus Catapiesis:

• Catapiesis attenuata (Chaudoir, 1862) (Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador)
• Catapiesis bartyrae Reichardt, 1970 (French Guiana and Brazil)
• Catapiesis brasiliensis (Gray, 1832) (Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil, and Panama)
• Catapiesis columbica Chevrolat, 1838 (Colombia)
• Catapiesis mexicana (Chaudoir, 1854) (Panama, Nicaragua, and Mexico)
• Catapiesis nitida Solier in Brullé, 1835 (Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru, and Brazil)
• Catapiesis sulcipennis Bates, 1882 (Mexico)
• Catapiesis tumida Reichardt, 1973 (Colombia)