Celiamorphus (Selenophorus), Dejean, 1829

Bousquet, Yves, 2012, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico, ZooKeys 245, pp. 1-1722 : 713

Subgenus Selenophorus Dejean, 1829

Selenophorus Dejean, 1829: 80. Type species: Carabus palliatus Fabricius, 1798 designated by Hope (1838: 84).

Gynandropus Dejean, 1831: 810, 817. Type species: Gynandropus americanus Dejean, 1831 (= Harpalus hylacis Say, 1823) by monotypy. Synonymy established by Noonan (1985: 39). Etymology (original). From the Greek gyne (female), andros (male), and pous (foot), alluding to the expanded first protarsomere of the male and female (" les quatre premiers articles des... tarses antérieurs dilatés dans les mâles... le premier des tarses antérieurs des femelles fortement dilaté ") [masculine].

Hemisopalus Casey, 1914: 135. Type species: Harpalus opalinus LeConte, 1863 by original designation. Synonymy established by Noonan (1976: 41).

Diversity.

About 175 species in temperate, subtropical, and tropical areas of the Nearctic (29 species) and Neotropical (about 150 species) Regions.