Paussini

Tribe of beetles

Paussini

Cerapterus pilipennis
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Coleoptera
Family:  | Carabidae
Subfamily:  | Paussinae
Tribe:  | Paussini
Latreille, 1806
Subtribes

* Carabidomemnina Wasmann, 1928
* Cerapterina Billberg, 1820
* Heteropaussina Janssens, 1950
* Homopterina Wasmann, 1920
* Paussina Latreille, 1806
* Pentaplatarthrina Jeannel, 1946
* † Arthropteritina Luna de Carvalho, 1961
* † Eopaussina Luna de Carvalho, 1951

Paussini is a tribe of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are more than 25 genera and 610 described species in Paussini. They are found mainly in Africa, southern Asia, and the Pacific, although the genus Homopterus is found in the Americas.[1][2]

## Genera[edit]

These 26 genera belong to the tribe Paussini:

* Allorhopalus Nagel, 2017 (China and Indonesia)
* Arthropterus W.S.MacLeay, 1838 (Australia)
* Carabidomemnus Kolbe, 1924 (Africa)
* Cerapterus Swederus, 1788 (Africa)
* Ceratoderus Westwood, 1841 (South and East Asia)
* Eohomopterus Wasmann, 1919 (Ecuador, Brazil)
* Euplatyrhopalus Desneux, 1905 (Indomalaya, southeast Asia)
* Heteropaussus J.Thomson, 1860 (Africa, Indomalaya)
* Hexaplatarthrus Jeannel, 1955 (Madagascar)
* Homopterus Westwood, 1841 (Mexico, Central and South America)
* Lebioderus Westwood, 1838 (China, Southeast Asia, Oceania)
* Leleupaussus Luna de Carvalho, 1962 (South Africa)
* Megalopaussus Lea, 1906 (Australia)
* Melanospilus Westwood, 1847 (Indomalaya, Southeast Asia)
* Mesarthropterus Wasmann, 1926 (Ethiopia)
* Paussomorphus Raffray, 1885 (Africa)
* Paussus Linnaeus, 1775 (mainly Africa and southern Asia)
* Pentaplatarthrus Westwood, 1833 (Africa)
* Platyrhopalides Wasmann, 1918 (Bhutan, China, India)
* Platyrhopalopsis Desneux, 1905 (Indomalaya)
* Platyrhopalus Westwood, 1833 (Indomalaya and temperate Asia)
* Pterorhopalus Maruyama, 2011 (Indonesia and Malaysia)
* † Arthropterites Wasmann, 1926
* † Cerapterites Wasmann, 1926
* † Eopaussus Wasmann, 1926
* † Protocerapterus Wasmann, 1926

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Paussini Latreille, 1806". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
2. ^ Lorenz, Wolfgang (2021). "Carabcat Database". doi:10.48580/dfqf-3dk. Retrieved 2023-03-04.

Taxon identifiers

Paussini|

* Wikidata: Q3372871
* Wikispecies: Paussini
* AFD: Paussini
* BioLib: 249798
* CoL: 8KTWQ
* Fauna Europaea: 387584
* Fauna Europaea (new): 47ae3d95-02a3-4328-a40a-d7cd88b25c21
* Fossilworks: 262586
* iNaturalist: 422520
* ITIS: 931381
* NCBI: 63891

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