Protopaussus

This is a myrmecophilous genus of Carabidae (Paussinae) beetles with nine described species.

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List of Protopaussus and their Host Ants

Genus and species	Author and Year	Ant Host	Distribution	Notes
Protopaussus almorensis	Champion, 1923	ants?	India and Nepal
Protopaussus bakeri	Heller, 1914	ants?	Philippines
Protopaussus feae	Gestro, 1892	ants	Myanmar
Protopaussus javanus	Wasmann, 1912	ants?	Indonesia
Protopaussus jeanneli	Luna de Carvalho, 1960	ants	Borneo, Indonesia, and Laos
Protopaussus kaszabi	Luna de Carvalho, 1967	ants?	Taiwan and temperate Asia
Protopaussus vignai	Nagel, 2018	ants	Nepal
Protopaussus walkeri	Waterhouse, 1897	ants	China
Protopaussus pristinus	Nagel, 1987	ants	Dominican Republic	fossil

REFERENCES

• Gestro, R. (1892). "Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine XLVI". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. Ser. 2. 12: 706–708.

• Heller, K. M. (1914). "Eine dritte Protopaussus-Art". Wiener entomologische Zeitung. 33 (5–6): 203–205.

• Luna de Carvalho, Ed. (1967). "Études Paussidologiques (Coleoptera Carab. Paussinae)" (PDF 23.8 MB). Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici. Pars Zoologica. 59: 259–274

• Nagel, Peter (1997). "New fossil paussids from Dominican amber with notes on the phylogenetic systematics of the paussine complex (Coleoptera: Carabidae)". Systematic Entomology. 22 (4): 345–362.

• Nagel, Peter (2018). "Flanged Bombardier Beetles of Nepal (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae: Paussinae), with nomenclatural and taxonomic notes and descriptions of new species". In Hartmann, M.; M.V.L. Barclay; J. Weipert (eds.). Biodiversität und Naturausstattung im Himalaya VI. pp. 249–282.

• Wasmann, E. (1912). "Zwei neue Paussiden und ein neuer Rhysopaussine aus Niederländisch Indien". Tijdschrift voor Entomologie. 55 (4): 255–262.

• Waterhouse, Charles O. (1897). "Description of a new Coleopterous Insect of the family Paussidæ". Transactions of the Royal Entomological Society of London. 1897 (4): 391–392