''Blethisa'' is a genus of
ground beetle
Ground beetles are a large, cosmopolitan distribution, cosmopolitan family (biology), 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 Europe. As of 2015, it i ...
native to the
Palearctic
The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa.
The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...
. It contains the following species:
* ''
Blethisa catenaria''
Brown, 1944
* ''
Blethisa eschscholtzii''
Zoubkoff, 1829
* ''
Blethisa hudsonica''
Casey, 1924
* ''
Blethisa inexpectata''
Goulet & Smetana, 1983
* ''
Blethisa julii''
LeConte, 1863
* ''
Blethisa multipunctata''
Linnaeus, 1758
* ''
Blethisa oregonensis''
LeConte, 1853
* ''
Blethisa pleistocenica''
Lomnicki, 1894
* ''
Blethisa quadricollis''
Haldeman, 1847
* ''
Blethisa tuberculata''
Motschulsky, 1844
References
External links
''Blethisa'' at Fauna Europaea
Taxa named by Franco Andrea Bonelli
Carabidae genera
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