Homethes

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Ordo: Coleoptera
Subordo: Adephaga

Familia: Carabidae
Subfamilia: Harpalinae
Supertribus: Lebiitae
Tribus: Lachnophorini
Genus: Homethes

Note:: tribus Pentagonicini by BioLib.

Species: H. angulatus – H. elegans – H. gracilis – H. guttifer – H. marginipennis – H. microguttatus – H. niger – H. rotundatus – H. sericeus – H. velutinus
Name

Homethes Newman, 1842: 402

Type species: Homethes elegans Newman, 1842: 402

References
Primary references

Newman, E. 1842. List of insects collected at Port Philipp, South Australia, by Edmund Thomas Higgins, Esq. Entomologist 1(25): 401–405. BHL Reference page.

Additional references

Erwin, T.L. & Zamorano, L.S. 2014. A synopsis of the tribe Lachnophorini, with a new genus of Neotropical distribution and a revision of the Neotropical genus Asklepia Liebke, 1938 (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae). ZooKeys 430: 1–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.430.8094 Reference page. [way of life, distribution, notes, references: p. 24, fig. 13]
Liebherr, J.K. 1990: A new tribal placement for the Australasian genera Homethes and Aeolodermus (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Odacanthini). Pan-Pacific entomologist 66(4): 312–321. Abstract only seen Reference page.

Links

Homethes – Taxon details on Biological Library (BioLib).
Homethes – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Vernacular names
English: Velvet-backed beetles

Homethes is a genus of beetles in the family Carabidae, containing the following species:[1]

Homethes angulatus Blackburn, 1892
Homethes elegans Newman, 1842
Homethes gracilis Blackburn, 1892
Homethes guttifer Germar, 1848
Homethes marginipennis Macleay, 1871
Homethes niger Sloane, 1920
Homethes rotundatus Blackburn, 1892
Homethes sericeus (Erichson, 1842)
Homethes velutinus Macleay, 1871

References

"Homethes Newman, 1842". Carabidae of the World. 2011. Retrieved 12 Jul 2011.