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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Licininae |
| Tribe: | Oodini |
| Subtribe: | Dercylina |
| Genus: | Dercylus Laporte, 1832 |
| Subgenera | |
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Dercylus is a genus in the beetle family Carabidae. There are more than 30 described species in Dercylus, found primarily in Mexico, Central America, and South America.12
Species
These 35 species belong to the genus Dercylus:
- Dercylus alternans Kuntzen, 1912 (Colombia and Venezuela)
- Dercylus anthracinus (Dejean, 1831) (Brazil)
- Dercylus ater Laporte, 1832 (Brazil)
- Dercylus batesii Chaudoir, 1861 (Bolivia and Brazil)
- Dercylus bolivianus Kuntzen, 1912 (Bolivia)
- Dercylus buckleyi (Chaudoir, 1883) (Ecuador and Peru)
- Dercylus catenatus Kuntzen, 1912
- Dercylus chaudoiri Kuntzen, 1912 (Brazil)
- Dercylus convexus Kuntzen, 1912 (Brazil)
- Dercylus cordicollis (Chaudoir, 1883) (Colombia and Ecuador)
- Dercylus crenatus Schaum, 1860 (Brazil)
- Dercylus davidsoni Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995
- Dercylus franiai Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995
- Dercylus gaujoni Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995
- Dercylus gautardi Chaudoir, 1869 (Brazil)
- Dercylus gibber Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995
- Dercylus gibbosus LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851 (Surinam, French Guiana, and Brazil)
- Dercylus granifer Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995 (Ecuador)
- Dercylus heynei Kuntzen, 1912 (Peru)
- Dercylus infernus LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851 (Venezuela and Brazil)
- Dercylus italoi Moret, 1999 (Ecuador)
- Dercylus licinoides (Perty, 1830) (Brazil)
- Dercylus mathani Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995
- Dercylus mexicanus Bates, 1891 (Mexico)
- Dercylus nodosus Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995
- Dercylus ohausi Kuntzen, 1912 (Brazil)
- Dercylus onorei Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995 (Ecuador)
- Dercylus opacus Kuntzen, 1912 (Colombia and Venezuela)
- Dercylus orbiculatus Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995 (Ecuador)
- Dercylus praepilatus Moret in Moret & Bousquet, 1995 (Ecuador)
- Dercylus punctatosulcatus Chaudoir, 1869 (Brazil)
- Dercylus puritanus Kuntzen, 1912 (Brazil)
- Dercylus steinbachi Kuntzen, 1912 (Bolivia and Paraguay)
- Dercylus tenebricosus LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851 (French Guiana and Brazil)
- Dercylus tuberculatus (Chaudoir, 1883) (Colombia)
References
References
- "Dercylus Laporte, 1832". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-17.
- Lorenz, Wolfgang (2021). "Carabcat Database". doi:10.48580/dfqf-3dk. Retrieved 2023-04-13.