Thoasia pterosmaragdos
Appearance
Thoasia pterosmaragdos | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Family: | Carabidae |
Subfamily: | Lebiinae |
Tribe: | Lebiini |
Subtribe: | Agrina |
Genus: | Thoasia |
Species: | T. pterosmaragdos
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Binomial name | |
Thoasia pterosmaragdos Aldebron & Erwin, 2018
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Thoasia pterosmaragdos, the emerald-winged pentagonal arboreal carabid, is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in French Guiana.[1][2][3]
Description
[edit]They are macropterous and capable of flight. Standard body length is 4.21–4.39 mm. Elytra entirely metallic dark emerald shiny. Pronotum moderately narrow. Abdomen Sparsely setiferous.[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.
- ^ "Thoasia pterosmaragdos". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-08-15.
- ^ "Thoasia pterosmaragdos Aldebron & Erwin, 2018". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-08-15.