Zabrini is a tribe of ground beetles in the subfamily
Pterostichinae
Pterostichinae is a subfamily of ground beetles (family Carabidae). It belongs to the advanced harpaline assemblage, and if these are circumscribed '' sensu lato'' as a single subfamily, Pterostichinae are downranked to a tribe Pterostichini. Ho ...
of beetle 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 ...
, found mainly in North America and Europe. There are more than 750 described species in three genera of Zabrini, more than 600 of which are in the genus ''Amara''.
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Genera
There are three genera in the tribe Zabrini, within two subtribes:[
* Subtribe Amarina Zimmermann, 1832
** '' Amara'' Bonelli, 1810 – Sun beetles
** '' Pseudamara'' Lindroth, 1968
* Subtribe Zabrina Bonelli, 1810
** '']Zabrus
''Zabrus'' is a genus of ground beetles. They are, unusually for ground beetles, omnivores or even herbivores, and ''Zabrus tenebrioides'' can become a pest (organism), pest in cereal fields.
Subgenera
The following are subgenera of ''Zabrus'':
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'' Clairville, 1806
References
Pterostichinae
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