Brachinini

Pheropsophus verticalis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Adephaga

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Cladus: Metapterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Endopterygota Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Brachininae
Tribus: Brachinini
Subtribus (4): Aptinina – Brachinina – Mastacina – Pheropsophina

Genera (8): Aptinoderus – Aptinus – Brachinulus – Brachinus – Mastax – Pheropsophus – Styphlodromus – Styphlomerus

Name

Brachinini Bonelli, 1810

Synonyms

• Mastacina Erwin, 1970
• Peropsophini Jeannel, 1948
• Styphlomerini Habu, 1984

References

• Bouchard, P., Bousquet, Y., Davies, A.E., Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Lawrence, J.F., Lyal, C.H.C., Newton, A.F., Reid, C.A.M., Schmitt, M., Ślipiński, S.A. & Smith, A.B.T. 2011. Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta). ZooKeys 88: 1–972. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807 . PMC: 3088472 . Reference page. 
• Frank, J.H.; Erwin, T.L.; Hemenway, R.C. 2009: Economically beneficial ground beetles. The specialized predators Pheropsophus aequinoctialis (L.) and Stenaptinus jessoensis (Morawitz): their laboratory behavior and descriptions of immature stages (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Brachininae). ZooKeys, 14: 1–36. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.14.188
• Ullah, M., Naeem, M., Mahmood, K. & Rafi, M.A. 2017. Faunistic studies of the tribe Brachinini (Carabidae: Coleoptera) from northern Pakistan. Zootaxa 4232(2): 173–184. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4232.2.2. Reference page. 

Links

• Brachinini in the Carabidae of the World database.
• Zicha, Ondřej et al. Brachinini – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Brachinini – Taxon details on Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
• in Tree of Life

Vernacular names

Deutsch: Bombardierkäfer
English: Bombardier beetle
Esperanto: Bombardskarabo
español: Brachininae
suomi: Pommikiitäjäinen
français: Coléoptère bombardier
עברית: מפציצנית מרעישה
italiano: Brachininae
ქართული: მჭექარები
kurdî: Kêzika fisek
Lëtzebuergesch: Bombardéierkiewerleken
lietuvių: Bombožygiai
Nederlands: Grote bombardeerkever
norsk: Bombardérbiller
português: Besouro bombardeiro
русский: Бомбардир (жук)
Simple English: Bombardier beetle

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