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Protopaussus

Protopaussus is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae, the sole genus of the tribe Protopaussini. It is found in Indomalaya and temperate Asia.

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Protopaussus
Protopaussus sp., collected in Thailand
P. feae, collected in Myanmar.
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Suborder: Adephaga
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Paussinae
Tribe: Protopaussini
Genus: Protopaussus
Gestro, 18921
Type species
Protopaussus feae
Gestro, 1892

Protopaussus is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae, the sole genus of the tribe Protopaussini. It is found in Indomalaya and temperate Asia.23

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Protopaussus:2

  • Protopaussus almorensis Champion, 1923 (India and Nepal)
  • Protopaussus bakeri Heller, 19144 (Philippines)
  • Protopaussus feae Gestro, 18921 (Myanmar)
  • Protopaussus javanus Wasmann, 19125 (Indonesia)
  • Protopaussus jeanneli Luna de Carvalho, 19606 (Borneo, Indonesia, and Laos)
  • Protopaussus kaszabi Luna de Carvalho, 19676 (Taiwan and temperate Asia)
  • Protopaussus vignai Nagel, 20187 (Nepal)
  • Protopaussus walkeri C.O. Waterhouse, 18978 (China)
  • † Protopaussus pristinus Nagel, 19877
References

References

  1. Gestro, R. (1892). "Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine XLVI". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Ser. 2. 12: 706–708.
  2. "Protopaussus Gestro, 1892". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
  3. Lorenz, Wolfgang (2021). "Carabcat Database". ChecklistBank. doi:10.48580/dfqf-3dk. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  4. Heller, K. M. (1914). "Eine dritte Protopaussus-Art". Wiener entomologische Zeitung. 33 (5–6): 203–205. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.17797.
  5. Wasmann, E. (1912). "Zwei neue Paussiden und ein neuer Rhysopaussine aus Niederländisch Indien". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 55 (4): 255–262.
  6. Luna de Carvalho, Ed. (1967). "Études Paussidologiques (Coleoptera Carab. Paussinae)" (PDF 23.8 MB). Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici. Pars Zoologica. 59: 259–274.
  7. Nagel, Peter (1997). "New fossil paussids from Dominican amber with notes on the phylogenetic systematics of the paussine complex (Coleoptera: Carabidae)". Systematic Entomology. 22 (4): 345–362. doi:10.1046/j.1365-3113.1997.d01-51.x. S2CID 84564101.
  8. Waterhouse, Charles O. (1897). "Description of a new Coleopterous Insect of the family Paussidæ". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 1897 (4): 391–392. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1897.tb00977.x.