Metius

***Metius*** er en slekt av billene i delgruppen (underfamilien) Pterostichinae i familiegruppen løpebiller.  

## Utseende
Middelsstore, avlange, blanke løpebiller.

## Utbredelse
Slekten er utbredt i den neotropiske økosonen.

## Systematisk inndeling

* ordenen biller,** Coleoptera** Linnaeus, 1758
** underordenen Adephaga Schellenberg, 1806
*** overfamilien løpebiller og vannkalver, **[[Caraboidea]]** Latreille, 1802
**** familien  ** [[løpebiller]]**, Carabidae Latreille, 1802
***** underfamilie **[[Pterostichinae]]** Bonelli, 1810
****** slekten ***Metius*** Curtis, 1839 
******* *[[Metius aeneus]]* (Dejean, 1831)
******* *[[Metius andicola]]* (Dejean, 1831)
******* *[[Metius annulicornis]]* Curtis, 1839
******* *[[Metius apicalis]]* Straneo, 1986
******* *[[Metius auratoides]]* Straneo, 1986
******* *[[Metius blandus]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius bolivianus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius bonariensis]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius brunnescens]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius canotae]]* Steinheil, 1869
******* *[[Metius carnifex]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius caudatus]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius chilensis]]* (Dejean, 1831)
******* *[[Metius circumfusus]]* (Germar, 1824)
******* *[[Metius confusus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius constrictus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius cordatulus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius cordatus]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius eurypterus]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius femoratus]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius flavipes]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius flavipleuris]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius foveolatus]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius gigas]]* Straneo, 1953
******* *[[Metius gilvipes]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius guillermoi]]* Will, 2005
******* *[[Metius harpaloides]]* Curtis, 1839
******* *[[Metius hassenteufeli]]* Straneo, 1960
******* *[[Metius incertus]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius kulti]]* Straneo, 1952
******* *[[Metius kuscheli]]* Straneo, 1955
******* *[[Metius latemarginatus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius latigastricus]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius latior]]* Putzeys, 1875
******* *[[Metius loeffleri]]* Straneo, 1986
******* *[[Metius luridus]]* (Chaudoir, 1837)
******* *[[Metius malachiticus]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius marginatus]]* (Dejean, 1828)
******* *[[Metius mateui]]* Straneo, 1986
******* *[[Metius melancholicus]]* Straneo, 1952
******* *[[Metius negrei]]* Straneo, 1977
******* *[[Metius niger]]* (Motschulsky, 1866)
******* *[[Metius obscurus]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius obtusus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius parvicollis]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius parvulus]]* Straneo, 1952
******* *[[Metius peruvianus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius pogonoides]]* (Fairmaire, 1883)
******* *[[Metius punctulatus]]* Putzeys, 1875
******* *[[Metius robustus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius rotundatus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius rotundicollis]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius silvestrii]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius striatus]]* (Putzeys, 1875)
******* *[[Metius striolatus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius subcoeruleus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius subfoveolatus]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius submetallicus]]* Straneo, 1986
******* *[[Metius subsericeus]]* Straneo, 1952
******* *[[Metius titschacki]]* Straneo, 1951
******* *[[Metius viridulus]]* Straneo, 1953
******* *[[Metius zischkai]]* Straneo, 1960

## Eksterne lenker
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