Metriini

Metriini
Metrius contractus, California
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Paussinae
Tribe:	Metriini LeConte, 1853

Metriini is a tribe of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There are at least three genera and about six described species in Metriini. ^{[1] [2]}

Genera

These genera belong to the tribe Metriini:

• Metrius Eschscholtz, 1829 (2 species, found in North America)
• Sinometrius Wrase & J.Schmidt, 2006 (3 species, found in China)
• † Kryzhanovskiana Kataev & Kirejtshuk, 2019 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Cenomanian ^[3]

References

1. "Metriini LeConte, 1853". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-03-19.
2. Lorenz, Wolfgang (2021). "Carabcat Database". doi: 10.48580/dfqf-3dk . Retrieved 2023-03-04.
3. Kataev, Boris M.; Kirejtshuk, Alexander G.; Manukyan, Andranik R.; Anokhin, Boris A. (November 2019). "Kryzhanovskiana olegi gen. et sp. nov., a remarkable eyeless representative of the tribe Metriini (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae) from Upper Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar" . Cretaceous Research. 103: 104168. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.06.014. S2CID   198430198.