Global InformationLymnastis information
| Lymnastis | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Subfamily: | Trechinae |
| Tribe: | Bembidiini |
| Subtribe: | Tachyina |
| Genus: | Lymnastis Motschulsky, 1862 |
Lymnastis is a genus of ground beetles of the subfamily Trechinae.
The body length of the adult is 2.0–2.2 millimetres (0.079–0.087 in).[1] Body-color is yellow and flat.[1] Representatives of this genus are characterized by the following features:[1]
- Head is small and narrow;
- Compound eyes are usually large and are made up of about ten of the facet cells;
- Frontal supraorbital notch is reduced;
- Prischitkovaya groove on top is not bent;
- The elytron have fine hairs and have no return grooves;
- Vertex of the Abdomen appears from the elytron;
- The upper body is covered in soft hairs.
- ^ a b c Apple-Hnzoryan SM (1976). "part: 1". Fauna of Armenian SSR. Insects beetles. Ground beetles (Carabidae). Yerevan: Academy of Sciences of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. p. 55 (of 296).