Abacetini

Abacetini is a tribe of ground beetles in the family Carabidae.

Abacetini
Loxandrus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Subfamily: Pterostichinae
Tribe: Abacetini
Chaudoir, 1873

Reproductive System

The Abacetini is a rare animal in terms of its symmetry, due to it having a complete absence of a organ that is usually in a bilateral pair, which just happens to be one of its testis.[1]

Genera

These thirty-four genera belong to the tribe Abacetini:[2]

References

  1. Will, Kipling W.; Liebherr, James K.; Maddison, David R.; Galián, José (2005). "Absence asymmetry: The evolution of monorchid beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae)". Journal of Morphology. 264 (1): 75–93. doi:10.1002/jmor.10319. ISSN 1097-4687. PMID 15732050. S2CID 38195864.
  2. "Abacetini Chaudoir, 1873". Carabidae of the World. 2022. Retrieved 21 April 2022.

Further reading

  • Media related to Abacetini at Wikimedia Commons


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