Plagiopyga

Plagiopyga
Plagiopyga, Botswana
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Lebiinae
Tribe:	Lebiini
Subtribe:	Cymindidina
Genus:	Plagiopyga Boheman, 1848
Synonyms
Diaphoroncus Chaudoir, 1850 Plagyopyga Lacordaire, 1854

Plagiopyga is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about 13 described species in Plagiopyga, found in Africa.

Species

These 13 species belong to the genus Plagiopyga:

• Plagiopyga camerunica Basilewsky, 1984 (Cameroon)
• Plagiopyga chaudoiri Basilewsky, 1943 (Rwanda, South Africa)
• Plagiopyga cyclogona (Chaudoir, 1850) (DR Congo, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa)
• Plagiopyga cymindoides Péringuey, 1896 (South Africa)
• Plagiopyga dolichocephala Basilewsky, 1954 (DR Congo)
• Plagiopyga endroedyi Basilewsky, 1984 (Zimbabwe, South Africa)
• Plagiopyga ferruginea Boheman, 1848 (Zimbabwe, South Africa)
• Plagiopyga leleupi Basilewsky, 1950 (DR Congo)
• Plagiopyga lissodera Basilewsky, 1954 (DR Congo)
• Plagiopyga namaqua Basilewsky, 1984 (South Africa)
• Plagiopyga rufa (Gory, 1833) (Namibia, South Africa)
• Plagiopyga taterae Basilewsky, 1950 (DR Congo)
• Plagiopyga transvaalensis Barker, 1919 (South Africa)

External links

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