Piezia

Piezia
Piezia angusticollis, South Africa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Lebiinae
Tribe:	Cyclosomini
Subtribe:	Graphipterina
Genus:	Piezia Brullé, 1834

Piezia is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about 18 described species in Piezia, found in Africa.

Species

These 18 species belong to the genus Piezia:

• Piezia algoensis Péringuey, 1896 (Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)
• Piezia alternata Burgeon, 1929 (DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi)
• Piezia angulata Burgeon, 1929 (Tanzania)
• Piezia angusticollis Boheman, 1848 (Angola, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)
• Piezia apicemaculata Basilewsky, 1981 (Mozambique and Zimbabwe)
• Piezia aptinoides Perroud, 1847 (Botswana and South Africa)
• Piezia axillaris Brullé, 1834 (Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)
• Piezia beirensis Burgeon, 1929 (Mozambique)
• Piezia emarginata Fairmaire, 1887 (DR Congo, Kenya, Tanzania)
• Piezia kuntzeni Burgeon, 1929 (Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania)
• Piezia licita Péringuey, 1898 (Zimbabwe)
• Piezia livingstoni Chaudoir, 1870 (Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique)
• Piezia mashuna Péringuey, 1896 (Zambia and Zimbabwe)
• Piezia pilosevittata J.Thomson, 1857 (Mozambique and South Africa)
• Piezia quinquesignata Fairmaire, 1887 (Kenya and Tanzania)
• Piezia selousi Péringuey, 1896 (DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe)
• Piezia spinulae (Bertoloni, 1849) (Mozambique)
• Piezia suturata Burgeon, 1929 (Mozambique)

External links

• Citizen science observations for Piezia at iNaturalist
• Media related to Piezia at Wikimedia Commons