Heteropaussus

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This is a myrmecophilous genus of Carabidae (Paussinae) beetles with twenty-six described species.

Heteropaussus J.Thomson, 1860

Synonyms
  • Pleuropterus Westwood, 1841
  • Pleuropterinus Wasmann, 1918
  • Janssenius Luna de Carvalho, 1951
List of Heteropaussus and their Host Ants
Genus and species Author and Year Ant Host Distribution
Heteropaussus allardi (Raffray, 1886) ants Ghana, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Senegal/Gambia
Heteropaussus alternans (Westwood, 1850) ants Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe
Heteropaussus angolensis Luna de Carvalho, 1959 ants Angola
Heteropaussus basilewskyi (Luna De Carvalhao, 1951) ants Cameroon
Heteropaussus brevicornis (Wasmann, 1904) ants Kenya, Zimbabwe
Heteropaussus bruecklei Nagel, 1982 ants Cameroon
Heteropaussus cardonii (Gestro, 1901) ants India
Heteropaussus corintae Luna de Carvalho, 1958 ants Mozambique
Heteropaussus curvidens (Reichensperger, 1938) ants Kenya
Heteropaussus dohrni (Ritsema, 1875) ants Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon
Heteropaussus ferranti (Reichensperger, 1925) ants Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda
Heteropaussus flavolineatus (Kraatz, 1899) ants Tanzania
Heteropaussus hastatus (Westwood, 1850) ants Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania
Heteropaussus jeanneli (Reichensperger, 1938) ants Kenya, Tanzania
Heteropaussus kivuensis Luna de Carvalho, 1965 ants Democratic Republic of the Congo
Heteropaussus laticornis (H.Kolbe, 1896) ants Tanzania
Heteropaussus lujae (Wasmann, 1907) ants Cameroon, Angola, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon
Heteropaussus oberthueri (Wasmann, 1904) ants Uganda
Heteropaussus parallelicornis (Wasmann, 1922) ants Zambia, Zimbabwe
Heteropaussus passoscarvalhoi Luna de Carvalho, 1971 ants Angola, Namibia
Heteropaussus quadricollis (Wasmann, 1910) ants Nigeria, Togo
Heteropaussus rossi Luna de Carvalho, 1968 ants Malawi
Heteropaussus simplex (Reichensperger, 1922) ants Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
Heteropaussus taprobanensis (Gestro, 1901) ants India, Sri Lanka
Heteropaussus trapezicollis (Wasmann, 1922) ants Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Heteropaussus westermanni (Westwood, 1838) ants Indonesia, Malaysia

REFERENCES

  • Westwood, J. O., 1850. Descriptions of seventeen new species of the coleopterous family Paussidae. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond., 2 [1849]: 55-60.