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This is one of the species of ground beetles in the genus Pheropsophus, family Carabidae. The genus is distrubuted in all continents, with a large number of subspecies. Some members of this genus are commonly known as Bombardier Beetles.
The genus Pheropsophus in the widest sense (Lorenz 2005) is distributed in all continents, but is by far most common in the Old and New World Tropics. At present about 130 species and a quit.2
Source: Records of the Western Australian Museum, A new species of the genus Pheropsophus
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae) from northern Australia
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Adephaga
- Superfamily: Caraboidea
- Family: Carabidae
- Subfamily: Brachininae
- Genus: Pheropsophus
(Pheropsophus Solier, 1833, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/139b52fc-b4d3-439f-9372-c6216cc2d13c)
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Subclass: Pterygota
- Order: Coleoptera
- Suborder: Adephaga
- Superfamily: Caraboidea
- Family: Carabidae
- Subfamily: Brachininae
- Tribe: Brachinini
- Genus: Pheropsophus
- Subgenus:
- Aptinomorphus
- Pheropsophus
- Stenaptinus
(Genus Pheropsophus, iNaturalist, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/251460-Pheropsophus)
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Ali Ahadiyat for ID, member of Entomology Australia “Invertebratology”, https://www.facebook.com/groups/507004496955277
- Records of the Western Australian Museum, A new species of the genus Pheropsophus
(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae) from northern Australia, https://museum.wa.gov.au/sites/default/files/RecWAMuseum_2012_27(1)_062to067_BAEHR_0.pdf - Pheropsophus Solier, 1833, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/139b52fc-b4d3-439f-9372-c6216cc2d13c
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