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Cratogaster

Cratogaster is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about five described species in Cratogaster, found in Australia.

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Cratogaster
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Pterostichinae
Tribe: Pterostichini
Subtribe: Pterostichina
Genus: Cratogaster
Blanchard, 1843
Synonyms
  • Cyphosoma Hope, 1842
  • Pachidius Chaudoir, 1865
  • Tibarisus Laporte, 1867
  • Tiribasus Chaudoir, 1878

Cratogaster is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about five described species in Cratogaster, found in Australia.12

Species

These five species belong to the genus Cratogaster:

  • Cratogaster melas (Laporte, 1867)
  • Cratogaster occidentalis W.J.MacLeay, 1888
  • Cratogaster robusta (W.J.MacLeay, 1883)
  • Cratogaster sulcata Blanchard, 1843
  • Cratogaster unicolor (Hope, 1842)
References

References

  1. "GBIF, Cratogaster". Retrieved 2024-09-20.
  2. "Catalogue of Life, Cratogaster Blanchard, 1843". Retrieved 2024-09-20.