Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Alternative spelling: Pterostichi
Synonyms: Feroniens Dejean 1825, Feroniina Dejean 1825
Full reference: F. A. Bonelli. 1810. Observations Entomologiques. Première Partie (Cicindélètes et Portion des Carabiques) 1-58
Parent taxon: Pterostichini according to P. Bouchard et al. 2011
See also Larochelle and Larivière 2001, LeConte 1861 and Sahlberg 1880
Sister taxon: Cyclotrachelus
Subtaxa: Abax Myas Platysma Plocamostethus Poecilus Pterostichus Stomis
Type: Pterostichus
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Canada (4: Nunavut, Ontario collections), Greenland (8), Japan (3), New Zealand (1), the Russian Federation (49), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (10), United States (21: Alaska, California, Colorado, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wisconsin)
• Pliocene of Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Miocene of Germany (2), the Russian Federation (2), United States (2: Alaska, Washington)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Colorado)
Total: 114 collections including 240 occurrences