Lipostratia

Lipostratia
Lipostratia, Botswana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Lebiinae
Tribe:	Lebiini
Subtribe:	Agrina
Genus:	Chaudoir, 1873
Synonyms
Selousia Péringuey, 1896

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

These nine species belong to the genus Lipostratia:

• Lipostratia cyaniventris Fairmaire, 1888 (Namibia, South Africa)
• Lipostratia dichroa (Chaudoir, 1848) (Africa)
• Lipostratia distinguenda (Fairmaire, 1886) (Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Soqotra, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia)
• Lipostratia elongata (Boheman, 1848) (Mozambique, Botswana, Namibia, South Africa)
• Lipostratia laeviceps Basilewsky, 1964 (Somalia)
• Lipostratia masaica Basilewsky, 1960 (Kenya, Tanzania)
• Lipostratia mouffleti Chaudoir, 1873 (Angola, Botswana)
• Lipostratia nobilis (Péringuey, 1896) (Congo, DR Congo, Tanzania, Zimbabwe)
• Lipostratia somalica Basilewsky, 1960 (Somalia)