The Confusing slim arboreal carabid, (Straneotia confundis), is a species of beetle in the family Carabidae. It is found in Amazonian lowlands in the Yasuní area of northeastern Ecuador.[1]

Straneotia confundis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Family: Carabidae
Tribe: Lebiini
Subtribe: Agrina
Genus: Straneotia
Species:
S. confundis
Binomial name
Straneotia confundis
Aldebron & Erwin, 2018

They are macropterous and capable of flight. Standard body length is 4.46 mm. Very shiny dorsum. Head planar and perfectly smooth. Eye large and sub-hemispheric. Antenna short. Pronotum moderately narrow. Abdomen glabrous with normal ambulatory setae.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Erwin, Terry; Aldebron, Charlotte (2018). "Neotropical Thoasia Liebke, 1939 and Straneotia Mateu, 1961 of the Cryptobatida group, subtribe Agrina: Taxonomic revisions with notes on their ways of life (Insecta, Coleoptera, Carabidae, Lebiini)". Zootaxa (742): 57–90. doi:10.3897/zookeys.742.22900. PMC 5904565. PMID 29670431. Retrieved 6 April 2018.