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Nothobroscina Roig-Juñent 2000 is one five subtribes within the ground beetle tribe Broscini. The subtribe consists of ten genera from the
Gondwana Gondwana () was a large landmass, often referred to as a supercontinent, that formed during the late Neoproterozoic (about 550 million years ago) and began to break up during the Jurassic period (about 180 million years ago). The final stages ...
n countries: Australia, New Caledonia, New Zealand and southern South America. All of the genera are endemic to their type country, i.e., none of the genera are shared across any of the Gondwanan countries.


Genera

* '' Chylnus'' * '' Diglymma'' * '' Eurylychnus'' * ''
Mecodema ''Mecodema'' is a genus of large flightless ground beetle (Carabidae) endemic to New Zealand. The genus is very diverse in comparison to the other three New Zealand genera ('' Diglymma'', '' Oregus'', '' Orthoglymma'') within the subtribe Noth ...
'' * '' Monteremita'' * '' Nothobroscus'' * '' Oregus'' * '' Orthoglymma'' * '' Percolestus'' * '' Percosoma''


References

Liebherr, J. K., Marris, J. W., Emberson, R. M., Syrett, P., & Roig‐Juñent, S. (2011). ''Orthoglymma wangapeka'' gen. n., sp. n.(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini): a newly discovered relict from the Buller Terrane, north‐western South Island, New Zealand, corroborates a general pattern of Gondwanan endemism. ''Systematic Entomology'', ''36''(3), 395–414. Seldon, David S., and Gregory I. Holwell. (2019) "''Monteremita'' gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Carabidae), a new genus of ground beetle from New Caledonia." ''Austral Entomology'' 58, 4: 724–728. Slipinski, A., & Lawrence, J. (Eds.). (2019). ''Australian Beetles Volume 2: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga (part)''. CSIRO PUBLISHING. Juñent, S. R., & Ball, G. E. (1995). ''Nothobroscus chilensis'', new genus and new species, from southern South America (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini). ''The Coleopterists' Bulletin'', 301–312. Broscini Insect subtribes {{Broscinae-stub