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Carabinae is a subfamily of ground beetles in the family Carabidae, containing ten genera and over fourteen hundred described species. It has two tribes, the Cychrini Laporte (1834) and Carabini Latreille (1802). The latter is divided into two subtribes, the Carabina Latreille (1802) and Ceroglossina Vacher de Lapouge (1927).

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Carabidae
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Carabinae is a subfamily of ground beetles in the family Carabidae, containing ten genera and over fourteen hundred described species. It has two tribes, the Cychrini Laporte (1834) and Carabini Latreille (1802). The latter is divided into two subtribes, the Carabina Latreille (1802) and Ceroglossina Vacher de Lapouge (1927).

==Genera== These ten genera belong to the subfamily Carabinae: Tribe Carabini Linnaeus, 1802 Genus Aplothorax G.R.Waterhouse, 1842 Genus Calosoma Weber, 1801 Genus Carabus Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Ceroglossus Solier, 1848 Tribe Cychrini Perty, 1830 Genus Cychropsis Boileau, 1901 Genus Cychrus Fabricius, 1794 Genus Scaphinotus Dejean, 1826 Genus Sphaeroderus Dejean, 1826 Genus Maoripamborus Brookes, 1944 Genus Pamborus Latreille, 1812

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