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Genus Panagaeus

Beetle - Panagaeus crucigerus A beautiful beetle, ID not obvious to me.  Help! - Panagaeus fasciatus Panagaeus sallei? - Panagaeus sallei Hairy ground beetle – Panagaeus fasciatus? - Panagaeus fasciatus Panagaeus sallei? - Panagaeus sallei Panagaeus sallei? - Panagaeus sallei Panagaeus (looking for species) - Panagaeus sallei Panagaeus (looking for species) - Panagaeus sallei
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Harpalinae
Supertribe Pterostichitae
Tribe Panagaeini (Hairy Ground Beetles)
Genus Panagaeus
Explanation of Names
Panagaeus Latreille 1802
Numbers
3 spp. in our area (all in the subg. Hologaeus Ogueta 1966), 14 spp. in 2 subgenera total(1)
Range
holarctic & Neotropical; in our area, 2 spp. in e US (one reaches ON) + one soutwestern (AZ-TX), but all three present in TX(1)
Habitat
P. fasciatus and P. sallei inhabit dry forest; adults are found in leaf litter; P. crucigerus live on wet ground. Adults taken mostly at lights.
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.