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Strigomerus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Coleoptera
Suborder:	Adephaga
Family:	Carabidae
Subfamily:	Pterostichinae
Tribe:	Cratocerini
Subtribe:	Drimostomatina
Genus:	Strigomerus Chaudoir, 1873
Synonyms
Exocus Péringuey, 1896

Strigomerus is a genus in the ground beetle family Carabidae. There are about 18 described species in Strigomerus, found in Africa.

Species

These 18 species belong to the genus Strigomerus:

• Strigomerus basilewskyanus Straneo, 1954 (Guinea, Sierra Leone, DR Congo)
• Strigomerus cribratus Straneo, 1942 (Zimbabwe)
• Strigomerus damarensis (Kuntzen, 1919) (Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa)
• Strigomerus ferrugineus (Péringuey, 1896) (Sierra Leone, Congo, DR Congo, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, South Africa)
• Strigomerus freyi Straneo, 1958 (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana)
• Strigomerus girardi Straneo, 1991 (Guinea and Ivory Coast)
• Strigomerus glaber Straneo, 1941 (Sierra Leone)
• Strigomerus katanganus Burgeon, 1935 (DR Congo)
• Strigomerus latibasis Straneo, 1958 (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, DR Congo)
• Strigomerus levisternus Straneo, 1942 (Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Rwanda)
• Strigomerus magnus (Straneo, 1951) (Guinea, Ivory Coast, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo, Rwanda)
• Strigomerus marshalli Straneo, 1941 (Nigeria, Cameroon, DR Congo, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, South Africa)
• Strigomerus meruensis Straneo, 1948 (Kenya)
• Strigomerus parvicollis Straneo, 1939 (Kenya and Tanzania)
• Strigomerus schoenherri (Dejean, 1831) (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo)
• Strigomerus sulcipennis (Dejean, 1831) (Guinea, Sierra Leone, DR Congo, Angola)
• Strigomerus trisetosus Straneo, 1986 (Tanzania)
• Strigomerus troglophilus Straneo, 1985 (Somalia)