Oodini

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Oodini
Stenocrepis cuprea, Oklahoma
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Licininae
Tribe: Oodini
La Ferte-Senectere, 1851
Subtribes
  • Dercylina Sloane, 1923
  • Geobaenina Péringuey, 1896
  • Melanchitonina Jeannel, 1948
  • Oodina LaFerté-Sénectère, 1851

Oodini is a ground beetle tribe in the subfamily

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.[3]

Genera

These 43 genera belong to the tribe Oodini:[2][4]

References

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