Calleida

Translingual

Alternative forms

  • Callida (frequent misspelling, often reflected in derived terms)

Etymology

By surface analysis, Ancient Greek κάλλος (kállos, “beautiful”) +‎ Ancient Greek -ειδής (-eidḗs, adjectival suffix) +‎ -a f. Compare Latin callidus.

Coined by French zoologist and entomologist Pierre André Latreille and by French general, then entomologist, 19th century Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean in 1824.

Proper noun

Calleida f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Carabidae – certain ground beetles.
  2. A taxonomic subgenus within the family Carabidae – Calleida (Calleida).

See also

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