Euchroina
Kipling Will
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The Euchroina are distributed in all the southern continents with greatest known diversity in South America. The group is composed of an Australian series (=Setalis series of Moore (1965)), Euchroa and Blennidus-like taxa in the South and Central American series (one genus, Abaris, reaches southern North America) and a few taxa from Africa and Southern Europe.
Characteristics
They are medium to small sized for pterostichines, frequently metallic bronze, green or purple colored. Likely synapomorphies for the group included the lack the coronal suture in larvae (the few that are known), adults with well impressed frontal furrows on the head and a pecular "goose-neck" form of the female reproductive tract (Will 2000). Additionally, most species have sulci on the abdominal sterna, arcuate anterior marginal sulcus on the metacoxae and prominent eyes.
Discussion of Phylogenetic Relationships
The arrangement of taxa in series as presented here is only a working hypothesis. African and Australian taxa do seem group as within-continent groups and appear most similar among themselves. However, they are likely clades or even grades within the group presently desinated as the South American series.
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| Scientific Name | Abaris aenea |
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| Life Cycle Stage | Adult |
| Body Part | Habitus |
| View | Dorsal |
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| Scientific Name | Tichonilla nigra |
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| Life Cycle Stage | Adult |
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| Scientific Name | Oribazus catenulatus |
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| Specimen Condition | Dead Specimen |
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| Life Cycle Stage | Adult |
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Kipling Will
University of California, Berkeley, California, USA
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- First online 07 July 2006
- Content changed 21 October 2006
Citing this page:
Will, Kipling. 2006. Euchroina. Version 21 October 2006 (temporary). http://tolweb.org/Euchroina/51298/2006.10.21 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/
