Peleciini
Tribe of beetles
| Peleciini | |
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| Eripus oaxacanus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Panagaeinae |
| Tribe: | Peleciini Chaudoir, 1880 |
| Subtribes | |
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Peleciini is a tribe of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are about 8 genera and more than 90 described species in Peleciini. They are found mainly in the southern hemisphere.[1][2]
Genera
These eight genera belong to the tribe Peleciini:
- Agonica Sloane, 1920 (Australia)
- Ardistomopsis Straneo & Ball, 1989 (India, Sri Lanka)
- Disphericus G.R.Waterhouse, 1842 (Africa)
- Dyschiridium Chaudoir, 1861 (Africa, Vietnam)
- Eripus Dejean, 1829 (Mexico, Central and South America)
- Pelecium Kirby, 1819 (Central and South America)
- Pseudagonica B.Moore, 1960 (Australia)
- Stricteripus Straneo & Ball, 1989 (South America)
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