Taxon classification Animalia Coleoptera Carabidae

Genus Lymnastis Motschulsky, 1862

Type species.

Lymnaeum indicum (Motschuslky, 1851) .

Diagnosis.

Mentum without foveae; labrum bilobed, covering mandibles; head with two pairs of supraorbital setae; elytra slightly truncate; terminal abdominal ventrite of male with two long, straight setae, female with four long, straight setae; body densely to sparsely setose.

Distribution.

This Old World genus is adventive in Hawaii and the Caribbean (Erwin et al. 2002).