Agonocheila

Agonocheila curtula, copyright Simon Grove.

Belongs within: Harpalinae.

Agonocheila is an Australasian genus of ground beetles with a toothed mentum, two pairs of lateral setae on the pronotum, a conspicuously short-pubescent and roughened elytral surface, and simple tarsi with several teeth on the claws.

<==Agonocheila Chaudoir 1848 [=Agonochila (l. c.)]LM87
    |--*A. guttata Chaudoir 1848LM87
    |--A. anomala Chaudoir 1869 [=Agonochila anomala]LM87
    |--A. biguttata Chaudoir 1869 [=Agonochila biguttata]LM87
    |--A. bimaculata Sloane 1920 [=Agonochila bimaculata]LM87
    |--A. binotata (White 1846) [=Lebia binotata]LM87
    |--A. chaudoiri Sloane 1898 [=Agonochila chaudoiri]LM87
    |--A. cribripennis Chaudoir 1869 [=Agonochila cribripennis]LM87
    |--A. curtula (Erichson 1842) [=Cymindis curtula; incl. Agonochila corticalis Chaudoir 1869]LM87
    |--A. fasciata Sloane 1898 [=Agonochila fasciata]LM87
    |--A. fenestrata Blackburn 1892LM87
    |--A. flindersi Sloane 1920 [=Agonochila flindersi]LM87
    |--A. froggatti (Macleay 1888) [=Philophlaeus (l. c. for Philophloeus) froggatti]LM87
    |--A. irrita (Newman 1842) [=Lebia irrita]LM87
    |--A. koebelei Blackburn 1895LM87
    |--A. lutosa (Newman 1840) [=Lebia lutosa; incl. Thyreopterus subangulatus Germar 1848]LM87
    |--A. macleayi Sloane 1911 [=Agonochila macleayi]LM87
    |--A. minima (Macleay 1864) (see below for synonymy)LM87
    |--A. mollis (Newman 1842) [=Lebia mollis]LM87
    |--A. ovalis Sloane 1923 [=Agonochila ovalis]LM87
    |--A. perplexa Blackburn 1894LM87
    |--A. plagiata Sloane 1916 [=Agonochila plagiata]LM87
    |--A. punctulata Sloane 1911 [=Agonochila punctulata]LM87
    |--A. quadricollis Sloane 1911 [=Agonochila quadricollis]LM87
    |--A. ruficollis Sloane 1898 [=Agonochila ruficollis]LM87
    |--A. signata Moore 1963 [=Agonochila signata]LM87
    |--A. sinuosa Chaudoir 1869 [=Agonochila sinuosa]LM87
    |--A. stictica Blackburn 1895LM87
    |--A. subfasciata Chaudoir 1869 [=Agonochila subfasciata]LM87
    |--A. sublaevis Chaudoir 1869 [=Agonochila sublaevis]LM87
    |--A. suturalis Macleay 1871LM87
    `--A. vittula Chaudoir 1869 [=Agonochila vittula]LM87

Agonocheila minima (Macleay 1864) [=Sarathrocrepis (l. c. for Sarothrocrepis) minima; incl. Agonochila litterav Chaudoir 1869]LM87

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[LM87] Lawrence, J. F., B. P. Moore, J. E. Pyke & T. A. Weir. 1987. Zoological Catalogue of Australia vol. 4. Coleoptera: Archostemata, Myxophaga and Adephaga. Australian Government Publishing Service: Canberra.

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