Chlaenius Bonelli, 1810

Ullah, Mishkat, Naeem, Muhammad, Mahmood, Khalid & Garner, Beulah, 2022, Addition to the knowledge of Tribe Chlaeniini Brullé, 1834 (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Pakistan, Zootaxa 5115 (4), pp. 451-486 : 457

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5115.4.1
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:320C2E00-8035-431A-8AD7-D483D81923F6
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6365148
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/291CD321-5311-DC7B-FF6D-FE4C87D3FD14
treatment provided by	Plazi
scientific name	Chlaenius Bonelli, 1810
status

Treatment

Genus Chlaenius Bonelli, 1810 View in CoL

The genus Chlaenius Bonelli is the most species rich genera of the tribe Chlaeniini Brullé, 1834 with 855 known species worldwide ( Lorenz 2005) arranged in 62 subgenera. It is widely distributed in all zoogeographical regions of the World, however, is more diverse in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions with approximately 650 species ( Bousquet 2012). In Pakistan, itis represented by 29 species and 2 subspecies in 13 subgenera.