Introduction
Amarotypines are a small tribe of ground beetles (
Carabidae), recognised as a distinct tribe since 1985. The best known species is ''
Amarotypus edwardsii'' of
New Zealand
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, widely distributed throughout the three main islands, and arboreal in habits.
Biodiversity and distribution
* Genus ''
Amarotypus'':
New Zealand
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(1 sp.)
* Genus ''
Migadopiella'':
Tasmania
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, subdi ...
(2 spp.)
* NOTES: (1) Published taxonomic work on the tribe is currently very limited, and the presence of undescribed taxa in the South Island of
New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
has been noted; (2) ''
Migadopiella'' is somewhat provisionally included in Amarotypini
Classification and phylogeny
Previously considered to be migadopines (before 1985), amarotypines are still often treated as forming a monophyletic subfamily
Migadopinae
The Migadopinae are a subfamily of beetles in the family Carabidae
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan family of beetles, the Carabidae, with more than 40,000 species worldwide, around 2,000 of which are found in North America and 2,700 in ...
with
Migadopini, but the phylogeny may be (Amarotypini, (
Migadopini,
Elaphrini)). Alternatively, Amarotypini may form a clade with
Promecognathini, again unrelated to
Migadopini, though this possible relationship has been disputed.
[Ribera ''et al''. (2005)]
Footnotes
References
* 2009: A new genus and two new species of the subfamily Migadopinae from Tasmania (Coleoptera: Carabidae). ''Folia Heyrovskyana'' (A)
17 95-103.
* 1985: The taxon pulse: a general pattern of lineage radiation and extinction among carabid beetles. pp. 437–472 ''in'' (ed.) ''Taxonomy, phylogeny and zoogeography of beetles and ants''. ''Series entomologica'', 33 (this volume) (series
Google books* ; 2001
Carabidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): catalogue.''Fauna of New Zealand'', (43)
* ; 1998
Inferring phylogenetic relationships within Carabidae (Insecta, Coleoptera) from characters of the female reproductive tract.pp. 107–170 ''in'': ; ; (eds.) Phylogeny and Classification of Caraboidea, XX I.C.E. (1996, Firenze, Italy). ''Atti Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Torino''
* ; ; 2005: Phylogenetic relationships of ''Dalyat mirabilis'' Mateu, 2002, with a revised molecular phylogeny of ground beetles (Coleoptera, Carabidae). ''Journal of zoological systematics and evolutionary research'', 43: 284-296.
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