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Mecyclothorax curtipes

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Mecyclothorax curtipes
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Genus: Mecyclothorax
Species:
M. curtipes
Binomial name
Mecyclothorax curtipes
(Sharp, 1903)

Mecyclothorax curtipes is a species of ground beetle in the subfamily Psydrinae.[1] It was described by Sharp in 1903.[1]

Taxonomy

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The species was first described in 1903 by the English entomologist David Sharp, and its valid status was confirmed during an audit conducted in 2007 by the American coleopterist James Kenneth Liebherr (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA)[2][3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Mecyclothorax curtipes (Sharp, 1903)". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2023-04-08.
  2. ^ Liebherr James K. (2007). "Taxonomic revision of the Mecyclothorax beetles (Coleoptera : Carabidae, Psydrini) of Molokai, Hawaii and recognition of areas of endemism on Kamakou Volcano". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 114 (4): 179–281.
  3. ^ Sharp D. 1903. Coleoptera, Caraboidea. In Sharp D. (ed.). Fauna Hawaiiensis 3. University Press, Cambridge: pp. 175–292.