Monocentrum

Monocentrum frenchi, copyright Museums Victoria.


Belongs within: Scaritinae.

Monocentrum is an Australian genus of scaritine ground beetles with a very elongate, narrow body form and externally unidentate fore tibiae.

<==Monocentrum Chaudoir 1868 [incl. Teratidium Bates 1874] LM87
    |--*M. grandiceps Chaudoir 1868 LM87
    |--M. convexum (Sloane 1905) [=Teratidium convexum] LM87
    |--M. frenchi (Sloane 1905) [=Teratidium frenchi] LM87
    |--M. laticeps (Sloane 1897) [=Teratidium laticeps] LM87
    |--M. longiceps Chaudoir 1868 LM87
    |--M. macros (Bates 1874) [=*Teratidium macros] LM87
    |--M. parallelum (Sloane 1923) [=Teratidium parallelum] LM87
    |--M. perlongum (Sloane 1897) [=Teratidium perlongum] LM87
    |--M. procerum (Sloane 1916) [=Teratidium procerum] LM87
    `--M. robustum (Sloane 1916) [=Teratidium robustum] LM87

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

[LM87] Lawrence, J. F., B. P. Moore, J. E. Pyke & T. A. Weir. 1987. Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra.

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