Oodini

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Oodini
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Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Harpalinae
Supertribe: Chlaeniitae
Tribe: Oodini
, 1851
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Oodini is a ground beetle tribe in the subfamily Harpalinae.[1][2] Oodines are found worldwide (with highest diversity in tropical Africa) and are generally associated with standing water.[3] This tribe contains approximately 300 species arrayed in 32 genera.[1] Beetles in Oodini are distinguishable from other members of Carabidae by a combination of two characters: a laterally coadunate metepisternum (a feature of the exoskeleton), and an elytral ridge formed by the fusion of intervals 7 and 8.[4]

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  1. ^ a b Anichtchenko A. "Oodini". Carabidae of the World. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  2. ^ "BioLib". Retrieved 1 June 2014.
  3. ^ Bousquet, Yves (2012). "Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico". ZooKeys (245): 1–1722. doi:10.3897/zookeys.245.3416. PMC 3577090. PMID 23431087.
  4. ^ Bousquet, Yves (May–June 1996). "Taxonomic Revision of Nearctic, Mexican, and West Indian Oodini (Coleoptera: Carabidae))". The Canadian Entomologist. 128 (3): 443–537. doi:10.4039/ent128443-3.

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