Ginema

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Coleopterida
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Harpalinae
Supertribus: incertae sedis
Tribus: Ginemini
Genus: Ginema
Species (1): G. thomasi
Name

Ginema Ball & Shpeley, 2002
Synonyms

Ginema Ball & Shpeley, 2002: 83 [gender: neuter]

Type species

Ginema thomasi Ball & Shpeley, 2002, by original designation

References

Ball, G.E.; Shpeley, D. 2002: Ginemini, Ginema thomasi, new tribe, new genus and new species, from Amazonian Bolivia (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalinae). Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 128(1): 75–98. JSTOR

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Ginema is a genus of ground beetles (family Carabidae). The single described species, Ginema thomasi, is known only from Bolivia.[1]

Its closest living relatives are unknown, and is sometimes separated as subfamily Gineminae. While this species certainly does not resemble any other tribe of ground beetles, it is not yet fully resolved whether treatment as a monotypic subfamily adequately expresses its phylogenetic position. Alternatively, Gineminae can be downranked to a tribe Ginemini within subfamily Harpalinae (particularly when these are loosely circumscribed) or a related lineage.
References

"Gineminae Ball & Shpeley, 2002". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 30 Jun 2011.