ditomine

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ditomine (plural ditomines)

(zoology) A ground beetle of the subtribe Ditomina.
- 2000, Pietro Brandmayr, Natural History and Applied Ecology of Carabid Beetles, page 87:
  In many ditomines and harpalines, the males possess four laterally extended tarsi, but both sexes climb on umbelliferous plants and other herbs with the same ease.
- 2012, Yves Bousquet, Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, North of Mexico, page 57:
  They also advocated raising selenophorines, ditomines, and amblystomines to subtribe level.