Cerapterus

Cerapterus
Cerapterus pilipennis - Muséum de Toulouse
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Superfamily:	Caraboidea
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Paussinae
Genus:	Cerapterus Swederus, 1788

Cerapterus is a genus in the beetle family Carabidae. There are more than 30 described species in Cerapterus.^[1][2]

These 32 species belong to the genus Cerapterus:

• Cerapterus benguelanus Kolbe, 1926 (Africa)
• Cerapterus brancae Luna de Carvalho, 1961 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Cerapterus burgeoni Reichensperger, 1937 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
• Cerapterus calaharicus Kolbe, 1926 (Mozambique and Botswana)
• Cerapterus concolor Westwood, 1850 (South Africa)
• Cerapterus denoiti Wasmann, 1899 (Africa)
• Cerapterus drescheri Reichensperger, 1935 (Indonesia)
• Cerapterus elgonis Reichensperger, 1938 (Kenya)
• Cerapterus herrei Schultze, 1923 (Philippines)
• Cerapterus horni Reichensperger, 1925 (Africa)
• Cerapterus horsfieldi Westwood, 1833 (Myanmar and Indonesia)
• Cerapterus hottentottus Kolbe, 1896 (Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa)
• Cerapterus immaculatus Luna de Carvalho, 1975 (South Africa)
• Cerapterus kolbei Lorenz, 1998 (Rwanda and Tanzania)
• Cerapterus laceratus (C.A.Dohrn, 1891) (Africa)
• Cerapterus lafertei Westwood, 1850 (Africa)
• Cerapterus latipes Swederus, 1788 (Sri Lanka, India, and Myanmar)
• Cerapterus leoninus Kolbe, 1926 (Africa)
• Cerapterus longihamus Reichensperger, 1933 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, and Malawi)
• Cerapterus longipennis Wasmann, 1899 (Tanzania and South Africa)
• Cerapterus myrmidonum Kolbe, 1896 (Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Angola, and South Africa)
• Cerapterus oblitus Reichensperger, 1938 (South Africa)
• Cerapterus parallelus Wasmann, 1922 (Democratic Republic of the Congo and South Africa)
• Cerapterus pilipennis Wasmann, 1922 (Africa)
• Cerapterus pseudoblitus Luna de Carvalho, 1961 (Africa)
• Cerapterus pygmaeus Luna de Carvalho, 1960 (Congo (Brazzaville))
• Cerapterus quadrimaculatus Westwood, 1841 (China, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia)
• Cerapterus smithii Westwood, 1838 (Africa)
• Cerapterus splendidus Wasmann, 1918 (Kenya)
• Cerapterus stalii Westwood, 1874 (South Africa)
• Cerapterus stuhlmanni Kolbe, 1895 (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Tanzania, and Angola)
• Cerapterus trinitatis Kolbe, 1896 (Tanzania, Malawi, and South Africa)