Parena

***Parena***  er en slekt av løpebiller.

## Utseende
Middelsstore, avlange og litt flate, blanke, brunlige til svarte løpebiller. Hodet har store, utstående fasettøyne, kjevene er ikke spesilet store. Antennene er litt lengre enn hode + pronotum. Pronotum er avrundet firkantet, forholdsvis lite. Dekkvingene er noe utvidet bakover, med fine punktstriper.

## Levevis

## Utbredelse
Slekten er utbredt i Afrika og Asia.

## Systematisk inndeling

* Ordenen biller,** Coleoptera** Linnaeus, 1758
** Underordenen Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806
*** Overfamilien løpebiller og vannkalver, **[[Caraboidea]]** Latreille, 1802
**** Familien **[[løpebiller]]**, Carabidae Latreille, 1802
***** Underfamilien **[[Lebiinae]]**  Bonelli, 1810
****** Stammen Lebiini  Bonelli, 1810 
******* Gruppen Metallicina Basilewsky, 1984
******** Slekten ***Parena*** Motschulsky, 1859
********* *[[Parena africana]]* (Alluaud, 1917) 
********* *[[Parena albomaculata]]* Habu, 1979 
********* *[[Parena alluaudi]]* Jeannel, 1949  
********* *[[Parena amamiooshimensis]]* Habu, 1964
********* *[[Parena andrewesi]]* Jedlicka, 1934  
********* *[[Parena bicolor]]* Motschulsky, 1859 
********* *[[Parena cavipennis]]* Bates, 1873 
********* *[[Parena circumdata]]* Shibata, 1987 
********* *[[Parena dorae]]* Basilewsky, 1955 
********* *[[Parena dorsigera]]* Schaum, 1863 
********* *[[Parena esakii]]* Habu, 1969 
********* *[[Parena fasciata]]* (Chaudoir, 1872 
********* *[[Parena ferruginea]]* (Chaudoir, 1978) 
********* *[[Parena hastata]]* (Heller, 1921) 
********* *[[Parena kataevi]]* Kirschenhofer, 2006 
********* *[[Parena koreana]]* Kirschenhofer, 1994
********* *[[Parena kunmingensis]]* Kirschenhofer, 1996
********* *[[Parena kurosai]]* Habu, 1967 
********* *[[Parena laesipennis]]* Bates, 1873 
********* *[[Parena latecincta]]* Bates, 1873 
********* *[[Parena levata]]* Andrewes, 1931 
********* *[[Parena madagascariensis]]* (Alluaud, 1917) 
********* *[[Parena malaisei]]* Andrewes, 1947
********* *[[Parena mellea]]* (Chaudoir, 1872) 
********* *[[Parena monostigma]]* (Bates, 1873) 
********* *[[Parena monticola]]* Shibata, 1987 
********* *[[Parena nantouensis]]* Kirschenhofer, 1996 
********* *[[Parena nepalensis]]* Kirschenhofer, 1994 
********* *[[Parena nigrolineata]]* Chaudoir, 1852 
********* *[[Parena obenbergeri]]* Jedlicka, 1952 
********* *[[Parena obscura]]* Mateu, 1977 
********* *[[Parena pendleburyi]]* Andrewes, 1931 
********* *[[Parena perforata]]* (Bates, 1873) 
********* *[[Parena picea]]* (W.J.Macleay, 1871) 
********* *[[Parena plagiata]]* Motschulsky, 1864 
********* *[[Parena politissima]]* (Chaudoir In Oberthur, 1883) 
********* *[[Parena quadrisignata]]* Mateu, 1977 
********* *[[Parena rubripicta]]* Andrewes, 1928 
********* *[[Parena rufotestacea]]* Jedlicka, 1934 
********* *[[Parena schillhammeri]]* Kirschenhofer, 2006 
********* *[[Parena sellata]]* Heller, 1921 
********* *[[Parena shapingensis]]* Xie & Yu, 1993 
********* *[[Parena sticta]]* (Andrewes, 1947) 
********* *[[Parena stigmatica]]* (Fairmaire, 1899) 
********* *[[Parena sulawesiensis]]* Kirschenhofer, 2006 
********* *[[Parena tesari]]* Jedlicka, 1951 
********* *[[Parena testacea]]* Chaudoir, 1872 
********* *[[Parena tripunctata]]* (Bates, 1873) 
********* *[[Parena wrasei]]* Kirschenhofer, 2006 
********* *[[Parena yunnana]]* Kirschenhofer, 1994

## Eksterne lenker
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