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Lipostratia
Sign in to saveLipostratia is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about nine described species in Lipostratia, found in Africa.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 12
- With media
- 30
- Family
- Carabidae
- Collections
- SAM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
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Lipostratia is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about nine described species in Lipostratia, found in Africa.
==Species== These nine species belong to the genus Lipostratia: Lipostratia cyaniventris Fairmaire, 1888 (Namibia, South Africa) Lipostratia dichroa (Chaudoir, 1848) (Africa) Lipostratia distinguenda (Fairmaire, 1886) (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Soqotra, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia) Lipostratia elongata (Boheman, 1848) (Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa) Lipostratia laeviceps Basilewsky, 1964 (Somalia) Lipostratia masaica Basilewsky, 1960 (Kenya, Tanzania) Lipostratia mouffleti Chaudoir, 1873 (Angola, Botswana) Lipostratia nobilis (Péringuey, 1896) (Congo, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) Lipostratia somalica Basilewsky, 1960 (Somalia)
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