Homethes

Homethes sp.

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 Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Coleopterida Ordo: Coleoptera Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Harpalinae
Supertribus: Lebiitae
Tribus: Lachnophorini
Genus: Homethes

Note:: tribus Pentagonicini by BioLib.

Species: H. angulatus – H. elegans – H. gracilis – H. guttifer – H. marginipennis – H. microguttatus – H. niger – H. rotundatus – H. sericeus – H. velutinus

Name

Homethes Newman, 1842: 402

• Type species: Homethes elegans Newman, 1842: 402

References

Primary references

• Newman, E. 1842. List of insects collected at Port Philipp, South Australia, by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. Entomologist 1(25): 401–405. BHL Reference page. 

Additional references

• Erwin, T.L. & Zamorano, L.S. 2014. A synopsis of the tribe Lachnophorini, with a new genus of Neotropical distribution and a revision of the Neotropical genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 430: 1–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.430.8094 Reference page.  [way of life, distribution, notes, references: p. 24, fig. 13]
• Liebherr, J.K. 1990. A new tribal placement for the Australasian genera Homethes and Aeolodermus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Odacanthini). The Pan-Pacific Entomologist 66(4): 312–321. BHL. Reference page. 

Links

• Homethes – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
• Homethes – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Vernacular names

English: Velvet-backed beetles