Hiletus

{{short description|Genus of beetles}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Species of genus Hiletus beetle, showing upper body, with blue background.png

| image_caption = A beetle species in the genus Hiletus

| taxon =Hiletus

| authority = Schiodte, 1847{{Cite web| title=Hiletus Schiödte, 1847 | url=https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/taxon/8KX86 | website=Catalogue of Life | access-date=2023-04-08 }}

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = See text

}}

Hiletus is a genus of ground beetles.{{cite book|last1=Bouchard|first1=Patrice|title=The Book of Beetles: A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred of Nature's Gems|date=2014|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=9780226082899|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UCauBgAAQBAJ&dq=genus+eucamaragnathus&pg=PT153|accessdate=3 April 2018}} All of the species in the genus live in the tropical forests of Africa.{{cite book|last1=Leschen|first1=Richard A.B.|last2=Beutel|first2=Rolf G.|title=Coleoptera, Beetles. Morphology and Systematics|date=2016|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|isbn=978-3110373929|page=176|edition=2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bEK7CwAAQBAJ|accessdate=8 April 2018}}