| Guatemalteca | |
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| Digital photo-illustration of a G. virgen specimen from near La Virgen, Costa Rica | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Genus: | Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004 |
| Type species | |
| Guatemalteca virgen Erwin, 2004 | |
Guatemalteca is a genus of beetle in the family Carabidae. As of 2017, its only described species is its type species, Guatemalteca virgen. When Terry Erwin named the genus in 2004, he placed it in the tribe Lachnophorini; in 2014 he and Laura S. Zamorano placed it in the subtribe Eucaerina.
In 2014, Erwin and Zamorano wrote that there were two additional undescribed species in this genus represented in the NMNH collection.
The genus's distribution includes cloud forests from Mexico to Peru, including Costa Rica, Guatemala, French Guiana, Mexico, and Peru.
References
- ^ Erwin, Terry L. (14 June 2004). "The beetle family Carabidae of Costa Rica and Panam : Descriptions of four new genera and six new species with notes on their way of life (Insecta: Coleoptera)". Zootaxa. 537 (1): 1–18. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.537.1.1.
- ^ "Guatemalteca Erwin, 2004". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
- ^ Erwin, Terry; Zamorano, Laura S. (1 August 2014). "A synopsis of the tribe Lachnophorini, with a new genus of Neotropical distribution and a revision of the Neotropical genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae)". ZooKeys (430): 22. Bibcode:2014ZooK..430....1E. doi:10.3897/zookeys.430.8094. PMC 4141162. PMID 25152663.
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| Guatemalteca | |
| Guatemalteca virgen | |
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