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Mastax Fulvonotata
''Mastax fulvonotata'' is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae with restricted distribution in the India. References Mastax fulvonotata Beetles described in 1952 Beetles of Asia {{Brachininae-stub ...
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Carabidae
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal families. They belong to the Adephaga. Members of the family are primarily carnivorous, but some members are phytophagous or omnivorous. Description and ecology Although their body shapes and coloring vary somewhat, most are shiny black or metallic and have ridged wing covers (elytra). The elytra are fused in some species, particularly the large Carabinae, rendering the beetles unable to fly. The species ''Mormolyce phyllodes'' is known as violin beetle due to their peculiarly shaped elytra. All carabids except the quite primitive flanged bombardier beetles (Paussinae) have a groove on their fore leg tibiae bearing a comb of hairs used for cleaning their antennae. Defensive secretions Typical for the ancient beetle suborder Adephaga to ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ...
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Brachininae
Brachininae is a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae. Taxonomy The subfamily contains two tribes and 14 genera. * Tribe Brachinini Bonelli, 1810 ** '' Aptinoderus'' Hubenthal, 1919 ** ''Aptinus'' Bonelli, 1810 ** '' Brachinulus'' Basilewsky, 1958 ** '' Brachinus'' Weber, 1801 ** '' Mastax'' Fischer von Waldheim, 1828 ** ''Pheropsophus'' Solier, 1833 ** ''Styphlodromus'' Basilewsky, 1959 ** '' Styphlomerus'' Chaudoir, 1875 * Tribe Crepidogastrini Jeannel, 1949 ** ''Brachynillus'' Reitter, 1904 ** ''Crepidogaster'' Boheman, 1848 ** ''Crepidogastrillus'' Basilewsky, 1959 ** ''Crepidogastrinus'' Basilewsky, 1957 ** ''Crepidolomus'' Basilewsky, 1959 ** ''Crepidonellus ''Crepidonellus'' is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in E ...'' Basilewsky, 1959 References Carabidae subfamili ...
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Beetles Described In 1952
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 described species, is the largest of all orders, constituting almost 40% of described insects and 25% of all known animal life-forms; new species are discovered frequently, with estimates suggesting that there are between 0.9 and 2.1 million total species. Found in almost every habitat except the sea and the polar regions, they interact with their ecosystems in several ways: beetles often feed on plants and fungi, break down animal and plant debris, and eat other invertebrates. Some species are serious agricultural pests, such as the Colorado potato beetle, while others such as Coccinellidae (ladybirds or ladybugs) eat aphids, scale insects, thrips, and other plant-sucking insects that damage crops. Beetles typically have a particularly hard exoske ...
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