Protopaussini

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Protopaussini
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Protopaussus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Paussinae
Tribe: Protopaussini
Gestro, 1892

Protopaussini is a tribe of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. There is a single genus in Protopaussini, Protopaussus . [1]

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References

  1. Andrea Di Giulio; Simone Fattorini; Andreas Kaupp; Augusto Vigna Taglianti; Peter Nagel (2003). "Review of competing hypotheses of phylogenetic relationships of Paussinae (Coleoptera: Carabidae) based on larval characters". Systematic Entomology. 28 (4). doi: 10.1046/j.1365-3113.2003.00227.x .