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Omophron

Anichtchenko, Alexander;Valainis, Uldis

EntityQ1138302· pop 15· linked from 27 articles

thumb|Omophron nitidum

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderColeoptera
  5. FamilyCarabidae
Observations recorded11,387

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
573
With media
47
Family
Carabidae
Collections
USNM, EMEC, BYU, CSU, OMNH
Recorded in
United States

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Image
Omophron tessellatum.jpg
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topic's main category
Category:Omophron
Commons category
Omophron
taxon rank
genus
taxon name
Omophron
taxon common name
Round Sand Beetles
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Encyclopedic overview

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thumb|Omophron nitidum

Omophron is a genus of ground beetle (Carabidae), the only extant genus in the subfamily Omophroninae. It is mostly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere with the southern border running through Guatemala and Hispaniola in Americas, South Africa and Madagascar in Africa, Malaysia and Philippines in Asia.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Omophron” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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