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Study on the family Carabidae (Coeloptera: Caraboidea)
Carabidae is one of the largest family in Coleoptera, approximately as a 90% of Adephaga. Up to now, 40,000 species of 33 subfamilies are known worldwide. Therefore, they have been adapting to a variety of environments. This family belong to the superfamily Caraboidea of suborder Adephaga. Among them, family Trachypachidae is very similar to family Carabidae and family Rysodidae sometimes has been treated as a subfamily of this. In addition, from the past to the present, the classification of family Carabidae has been complicated in the states of higher taxa by authors etc. Recently, the taxonomic studies upgraded according the advanced natural science, genetic or phylogenetic methods and development of new methods etc. Nevertheless, their classification is still mainly based on the external morphology and the genital characters. Multiple application of these classification methods, including genetic analysis, endophallus inflation and microscopic observation etc., are being help to solve the taxonomic problems of family Carabidae.
