page_title: Anthia
section_title: Species
hierarchical_section_title: Anthia / Species
caption_attribution_description: Familie: Carabidae Grösse: 40 mm Fundort: Kenia, Tsavo National Park leg. U.Schmidt, 1991; det. W.Lorenz Foto: U.Schmidt, 2006
context_page_description: Anthia is a genus of the ground beetle family. Species of Anthia can spray a jet of formic acid up to 30 centimetres, which if not treated, can cause blindness in animals which harass the beetles.
  In general the beetles are large, armored, fast-moving, with prominent, powerful, sharp mandibles. Some are diurnal predators in semi-arid habitats, some are nocturnal.
  The genus is one of a group of similar taxa of predatory Carabidae that has been the subject of considerable nomenclatural confusion. Several species here and elsewhere included within the genus Anthia are occasionally referred to as belonging to the non-existent genus Thermophilum, because the spelling has experienced a range of errors; the spelling that is valid under the ICZN and currently accepted is Termophilum but Thermophilum and Thermophila have been variously used in the past, as well as the misspelling "Thermophilium".
context_section_description: The genus Anthia includes the following species:
  Anthia aemiliana Dohrn, 1881
  Anthia aequilatera Klug, 1853
  Anthia alternata Bates, 1978
  Anthia andersoni Chaudoir, 1861
  Anthia artemis Gerstaecker, 1884
  Anthia babaulti Benard, 1921
  Anthia biguttata Bonelli, 1813
  Anthia binotata Perroud, 1846
  Anthia brevivittata Obst, 1901
  Anthia bucolica Kolbe, 1894
  Anthia burchelli Hope, 1832
  Anthia calida Harold, 1878
  Anthia calva Sternberg, 1907
  Anthia capillata Obst, 1901
  Anthia cavernosa Gerstaecker, 1866
  Anthia cephalotes Guerin-Meneville, 1845
  Anthia cinctipennis Lequien, 1832
  Anthia circumscripta Klug, 1853
  Anthia costata Gory, 1836
  Anthia csikii Obst, 1906
  Anthia decemguttata (Linnaeus, 1764)
  Anthia discedens Sternberg, 1907
  Anthia duodecimguttata Bonelli, 1813
  Anthia ferox J. Thomson, 1859
  Anthia fornasinii Bertoloni, 1845
  Anthia galla J. Thomson, 1859
  Anthia hedenborgi Boheman, 1848
  Anthia hexasticta Gerstaecker, 1866
  Anthia ida Kolbe, 1894
  Anthia lefebvrei Guerin-Meneville, 1849
  Anthia limbata Dejean, 1831
  Anthia lunae J. Thomson, 1859
  Anthia machadoi (Basilewsky, 1955)
  Anthia mannerheimi Chaudoir, 1842
  Anthia massilicata Guerin-Meneville, 1845
  Anthia maxillosa (Fabricius, 1793)
  Anthia mima Peringuey, 1896
  Anthia mirabilis Sternberg, 1906
  Anthia namaqua Peringuey, 1896
  Anthia nimrod (Fabricius, 1793)
  Anthia oberthuri Obst, 1906
  Anthia omoplata Lequien, 1832
  Anthia ovampoa Peringuey, 1896
  Anthia orientalis (Hope, 1838)
  Anthia praesignis Bates, 1888
  Anthia prevoili Lucas, 1881
  Anthia principalis Sternberg, 1907
  Anthia promontorii Peringuey, 1899
  Anthia pulcherrima H. W. Bates, 1888
  Anthia sexguttata Fabricius, 1775
  Anthia sexmaculata Fabricius, 1787
  Anthia sulcata (Fabricius, 1793)
  Anthia tatumana White, 1846
  Anthia thoracica (Thunberg, 1784)
  Anthia venator (Fabricius, 1792)
caption: Anthia hexasticta
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