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Tribe Ozaenini

Pachyteles parca LeConte - Goniotropis parca Pachyteles gyllenhalii? - Pachyteles gyllenhalii Arizona Beetle for ID - Goniotropis parca Physea hirta LeConte - Physea hirta Goniotropis kuntzeni? - Goniotropis kuntzeni Goniotropis kuntzeni? - Goniotropis kuntzeni Ozaena lemoulti Goniotropis parca? - Goniotropis
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Paussinae
Tribe Ozaenini
Explanation of Names
Ozaenini Hope 1838
Numbers
5 spp. in 3 genera in our area, ~180 spp. in 21 genera total(1)
Identification
Key to genera adapted from (2)
1. Tibia wide and compressed, with knife-like edge dorsally; femora with deep ventral groove; front tibiae with shallow emargination ... Physea

Tibia not as above; femora not or only slightly grooved .... 2
2. Protibiae strongly emarginate, with a prominent tooth at the base of emargination; dorsal surface with long setae; dorsal surface of mandibles not punctate; 11th antennomere dull, same width as 10th, narrowed gradually with granulate mat area on each side extending almost to the base .... Pachyteles

Protibiae shallowly emarginate, not toothed; dorsal surface without long setae, either glabrous or with short thick setae; dorsal surface of mandbiles densely punctate; 11th antennomere shining, wider than 10th, apically narrowed with apical portion thickly granulate, mat, and wedge-shaped .... Ozaena
Range
mostly tropical, ⅔ in the Neotropics; in our area, southwestern(1)
Habitat
Physea are thought to be myrmecophilous. Species in other genera have been taken in rotten wood and under stones, Larvae under bark and on bat guano.(2)
Food
Mostly nocturnal predators; Physea are myrmecophilous(3)
Print References
(4)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
3.Description and behaviour of Goniotropis kuntzeni larvae (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae: Ozaenini) and a key to....
Moore, W. and A. Di Giulio. 2006. Zootaxa 1111: 1–19.
4.The Middle American genera of the tribe Ozaenini with notes about the species in the southwestern United States and...
Ball, G.E. and McCleve, S. 1990. Quaestiones Entomologicae, 26: 30-116.