Homethes
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Ordo: Coleoptera
Familia: Carabidae
Name
Homethes Newman, 1842 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Homethes Newman, 1842:402
Type species
Homethes elegans Newman, 1842:402
Way of life
Size range – 8.5 mm to 9.0 mm; these small beetles, at least in some species, are known to fly. According to Moore et al. (1987)[1] they are predaceous.
Distribution
Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines.
Notes
Nine species are known to occur in Australia (Moore et al. 1987[1]).
References
Darlington (1956)[2]; Moore et al. (1987)[1]; Liebherr (1990)[3].
Taxon Treatment
- Erwin, T; Zamorano, L; 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: 1-108. doi
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Other References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Moore B, Weir T, Pyke J (1987) Carabidae. In: Lawrence JF, Moore BP, Pyke JE, Weir TA (Eds) Zoological catalogue of Australia. Volume 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra, viii + 444 pp.
- ↑ Darlington P (1956) Australian carabid beetles III. Notes on the Agonini. Psyche 63(1): 1–10. doi: 10.1155/1956/57940
- ↑ Liebherr J (1990) A new Tribal placement for the Australasian Genera Homethes and Aeolodermus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Odacanthini). Pan-Pacific Entomologist 66(4): 312–321.