Straneotia confundis
| Straneotia confundis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Tribe: | Lebiini |
| Subtribe: | Agrina |
| Genus: | Straneotia |
| Species: | S. confundis
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| Binomial name | |
| Straneotia confundis Aldebron & Erwin, 2018
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The Confusing slim arboreal carabid, (Straneotia confundis), is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Amazonian lowlands in the Yasuní area of northeastern Ecuador.[1]
They are macropterous and capable of flight. Standard body length is 4.46 mm. Very shiny dorsum. Head planar and perfectly smooth. Eye large and sub-hemispheric. Antenna short. Pronotum moderately narrow. Abdomen glabrous with normal ambulatory setae.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Erwin, Terry; Aldebron, Charlotte (2018). "Neotropical Thoasia Liebke, 1939 and Straneotia Mateu, 1961 of the Cryptobatida group, subtribe Agrina: Taxonomic revisions with notes on their ways of life (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)". Zootaxa (742): 57–90. doi:10.3897/zookeys.742.22900. PMC 5904565. PMID 29670431. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
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