Smeringocera

Smeringocera
Smeringocera, Botswana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Lebiinae
Tribe:	Odacanthini
Subtribe:	Odacanthina
Genus:	Chaudoir, 1863
Synonyms
Amoebaea Péringuey, 1896 Nothochalybe Maindron, 1906

Smeringocera is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about six described species in Smeringocera, found in Africa.^[1][2]

These six species belong to the genus Smeringocera:

• Smeringocera baenningeri Liebke, 1929 (Tanzania, Mozambique)
• Smeringocera convexa Mateu, 1966 (Chad)
• Smeringocera gestroi Alluaud, 1915 (Somalia)
• Smeringocera lineola (Dejean, 1831) (Mauretania, Senegal/Gambia)
• Smeringocera mashuna (Péringuey, 1896) (Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa)
• Smeringocera nigeriana Liebke, 1938 (Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Chad, Uganda)