Menigius
Genus of beetles
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Menigius is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about nine described species in Menigius, found in Africa.[1][2]
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Scaritinae |
| Tribe: | Scaritini |
| Subtribe: | Scaritina |
| Genus: | Menigius Chaudoir, 1879 |
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Species
These nine species belong to the genus Menigius:
- Menigius burgeoni Bänninger, 1932 (Cameroon, DR Congo, Rwanda)
- Menigius camerunensis Bänninger, 1929 (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo)
- Menigius congoensis Bänninger, 1929 (Chad, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo)
- Menigius hintzi Bänninger, 1929 (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda)
- Menigius liberianus (H. W. Bates, 1889) (Liberia)
- Menigius phillipsi Bänninger, 1929 (Tanzania, Mozambique)
- Menigius rotundicollis (A. D. Murray, 1857) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea)
- Menigius schaumi Chaudoir, 1881 (Ghana, Gabon, DR Congo)
- Menigius sulciger (Chaudoir, 1881) (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Gabon, DR Congo, Tanzania)
