| Apenes | |
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| Apenes sinuata from Oklahoma | |
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| Apenes lucidula from the United States | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Suborder: | Adephaga |
| Family: | Carabidae |
| Tribe: | Lebiini |
| Genus: | Apenes LeConte, 1851 |
Apenes is a genus of ground beetles in the family Carabidae. They have a distribution across the New world however they mostly live in the southern and neotropical regions with only two northern species.
There are at least 80 described species in Apenes.
