Menigius Explained

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

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Menigius:

• Menigius burgeoni Bänninger, 1932 (Cameroon, DR Congo, Rwanda)
• Menigius camerunensis Bänninger, 1929 (Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, DR Congo)
• Menigius congoensis Bänninger, 1929 (Chad, Cameroon, Congo, DR Congo)
• Menigius hintzi Bänninger, 1929 (Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, DR Congo, Uganda, Rwanda)
• Menigius liberianus (H. W. Bates, 1889) (Liberia)
• Menigius phillipsi Bänninger, 1929 (Tanzania, Mozambique)
• Menigius rotundicollis (A. D. Murray, 1857) (Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea)
• Menigius schaumi Chaudoir, 1881 (Ghana, Gabon, DR Congo)
• Menigius sulciger (Chaudoir, 1881) (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Gabon, DR Congo, Tanzania)