Addition to the knowledge of Tribe Chlaeniini Brullé, 1834 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Pakistan
Author
Ullah, Mishkat
Insects Division, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
Author
Naeem, Muhammad
0000-0002-2025-2024
muhammad. naeem @ uaar. edu. pk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 2025 - 2024
muhammad.naeem@uaar.edu.pk
Author
Mahmood, Khalid
0000-0001-7162-3430
dkmahmood @ msn. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7162 - 3430
dkmahmood@msn.com
Author
Garner, Beulah
0000-0002-5229-2450
Insects Division, Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom. & b. garner @ nhm. ac. uk; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 5229 - 2450
b.garner@nhm.ac.uk
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Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-16
5115
4
451
486
journal article
20208
10.11646/zootaxa.5115.4.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Chlaenius
Bonelli, 1810
The genus
Chlaenius
Bonelli
is the most species rich genera of the tribe
Chlaeniini
Brullé, 1834
with 855 known species worldwide (
Lorenz 2005
) arranged in 62 subgenera. It is widely distributed in all zoogeographical regions of the World, however, is more diverse in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions with approximately 650 species (
Bousquet 2012
). In
Pakistan
, itis represented by 29 species and 2 subspecies in 13 subgenera.