Hiletinae is a subfamily of
beetle
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s 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 Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal fami ...
, containing 21 species in two genera. All of the species in the genus ''
Hiletus'', as well as 6 species in ''
Eucamaragnathus'', live in Africa. The other species in ''Eucamaragnathus'' live in either
Southeast Asia
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and
India
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, or in
South America
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.
Classification
* Genus ''
Eucamaragnathus''
Jeannel, 1938
** ''
Eucamaragnathus amapa''
Erwin & Stork, 1985
** ''
Eucamaragnathus angulicollis''
(Jeannel, 1938)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus aterrimus''
(Jeannel, 1938)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus batesii''
(Chaudoir, 1861)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus bocandei''
(Alluaud, 1914)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus borneensis''
Erwin & Stork, 1985
** ''
Eucamaragnathus brasiliensis''
(Negre, 1966)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus castelnaui''
(Bocande, 1849)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus desenderi''
Assmann, Drees, Matern & Schuldt, 2011
** ''
Eucamaragnathus fissipennis''
(Ancey, 1882)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus jaws''
Erwin & Stork, 1985
** ''
Eucamaragnathus oxygonus''
(Chaudoir, 1861)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus spiniger''
(Andrewes, 1947)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus suberbiei''
(Alluaud, 1914)
** ''
Eucamaragnathus sumatrensis''
(Oberthur, 1883)
* Genus ''
Hiletus''
Schiodte, 1847
** ''
Hiletus alluaudi''
Jeannel, 1938
** ''
Hiletus fossulatus''
Jeannel, 1938
** ''
Hiletus jeanneli''
Negre, 1966
** ''
Hiletus katanganus''
Basilewsky, 1948
** ''
Hiletus nimba''
Erwin & Stork, 1985
** ''
Hiletus versutus''
Schiodte, 1847
References
Carabidae subfamilies
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