Mecodema haunoho

{{Short description|Species of beetle}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2017}}

{{Use New Zealand English|date=September 2017}}

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| image = M. haunoho.jpg

| image_caption = Dorsal view of Mecodema haunoho from Little Barrier Island, New Zealand

| genus = Mecodema

| species = haunoho

| authority = Seldon & Leschen, 2011

| range_map = Little Barrier Island location map.svg

| range_map_caption = Distribution (in green) of Mecodema haunoho

}}

Mecodema haunoho is the only ground beetle (Carabidae) species that is endemic to Little Barrier Island (Hauturu).{{Cite journal|last1=Seldon|first1=D.S.|last2=Buckley|first2=T.R.|date=2019|title=The genus Mecodema Blanchard 1853 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini) from the North Island, New Zealand|url=https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4598.1.1|journal=Zootaxa|language=en|volume=4598|issue=1|pages=zootaxa.4598.1.1|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.4598.1.1|pmid=31716064|s2cid=164710644 |issn=1175-5334}}{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1106097068|title=Hauturu: the history, flora and fauna of Te Hauturu-o-Toi Little Barrier Island|others=Veitch, C.R., Wade, L.|year=2019|isbn=9780995109582|location=Auckland, New Zealand|oclc=1106097068}} It is sister species of the Great Barrier Island (Aotea) species M. aoteanoho and both are closely related to M. manaia, a species found in Bream Head, Northland, New Zealand.{{cite journal|last1=Seldon|first1=David S.|last2=Leschen|first2=Richard A.B.|title=A revision of the Mecodema curvidens species group (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Broscini)|journal=Zootaxa|date=2011|volume=2829|pages=1–45|doi=10.11646/zootaxa.2829.1.1|hdl=2292/8777|hdl-access=free}}