''Desera'' is a genus in the
beetle
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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 Europe. As of 2015, it is one of the 10 most species-rich animal ...
. There are more than 20 described species in ''Desera''.
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Species
These 22 species belong to the genus ''Desera'':
* '' Desera australis'' (Péringuey, 1896) (Africa)
* '' Desera bicoloripennis'' (Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007) (Malawi
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)
* '' Desera coelestina'' (Klug, 1834) (China, Pakistan, India, and Indonesia)
* '' Desera confusa'' Hansen, 1968 (China, Japan, Pakistan, India, and Laos)
* '' Desera crassa'' Andrewes, 1931 (Indonesia and Borneo)
* '' Desera elegans'' (Sloane, 1907) (Indonesia and New Guinea)
* '' Desera geniculata'' (Klug, 1834) (Indomalaya
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Also called the Oriental realm by biogeographers, Indomalaya spreads all over the Ind ...
, east Asia)
* '' Desera gestroi'' (Bates, 1892) (India, Myanmar, and Laos)
* '' Desera inexpecta'' (Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007) (India)
* '' Desera javana'' (Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007) (Indonesia)
* '' Desera kulti'' Jedlicka, 1960 (China and Taiwan)
* '' Desera micropectinata'' (Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007) (Zambia)
* '' Desera nepalensis'' Hope, 1831 (China, Indomalaya)
* '' Desera nigripennis'' (Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007) (Indonesia and Borneo)
* '' Desera queenslandica'' (Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007) (Australia)
* '' Desera rugicollis'' (Chaudoir, 1861) (China, Nepal, and India)
* '' Desera schultzei'' Heller, 1923 (Philippines)
* '' Desera sinica'' (Liang & Kavanaugh, 2007) (China)
* '' Desera smaragdina'' (Chaudoir, 1861) (Australia)
* '' Desera ternatensis'' (Chaudoir, 1872) (Indonesia)
* '' Desera unidentata'' (W.S.MacLeay, 1825) (China, Indomalaya)
* '' Desera viridipennis'' Hope, 1842 (Africa)
References
Dryptinae
Carabidae genera
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