Abstract
A series of fieldwork events were conducted for the collection of Carabidae specimens in different regions of Pakistan from 2014–18. The fieldwork yielded 378 specimens belonging to tribe Chlaeniini Brullé, 1834. Fieldwork collections were supplemented by the Coleoptera collections of repositories including Pakistan Museum of Natural History, Islamabad; National Insect Museum, National Agricultural Research Centre, Islamabad and the Natural History Museum, London. This study resulted in the identification of 32 species and subspecies belonging to three genera (Chlaenius Bonelli, 1810, Harpaglossus Motschulsky, 1858 and Pristomacherus Bates, 1873). Sixteen species have been reported for the first time from Pakistan. A new combination is proposed for the subspecies Callistomimus littoralis littoralis (Motschulsky, 1859) to Pristomachaerus littoralis littoralis (Motschulsky, 1859) comb. nov. (= Callistomimus littoralis littoralis Chaudoir, syn. nov.). An identification key was developed for the species and subspecies of the tribe Chlaeniini from Pakistan.
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