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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Woodland Ground Beetles (Pterostichini) » Pterostichus » Subgenus Bothriopterus (Pterostichus Subgenus Bothriopterus) » adstrictus group (Pterostichus adstrictus group) » Pterostichus adstrictus
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elytral depressions ground beetle - Pterostichus adstrictus
Copyright © 2007 Jim McClarin

elytral depressions ground beetle - Pterostichus adstrictus
Jefferson Notch area, Coos County, New Hampshire, USA
May 27, 2007
Size: about 11 mm
Found under very loose bark of spruce log. The elytral depressions were a welcomed sight since they seemed like a distinctive-enough feature to permit ID to species level. Note that the depressions alternate between the second and third entire stria from the elytral suture.

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Contributed by Jim McClarin on 31 May, 2007 - 10:09pm
Last updated 2 June, 2007 - 1:23am

Moved
Moved from Pterostichus.
… Jim McClarin, 2 June, 2007 - 1:23am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Jim McClarin, 1 June, 2007 - 5:52am login or register to post comments

Our fauna are close in part
Seems to be the nearctic sibling of European Pterostichus oblongopunctatus - a common forest species, found under same circumstances.
… Boris Büche, 1 June, 2007 - 1:51am login or register to post comments

 
There are 24 Pterostichus in New Hampshire
according to Don Chandler's checklist. These include P. adst*rictus, which looks similar to this one.
… Jim McClarin, 1 June, 2007 - 5:51am login or register to post comments

 
In Province of Québec (and p
In Province of Québec (and probably also in New Hampshire), they are also the species P. pennsylvanicus that is very similar to P. adstrictus and both are really easy to confuse sometime. But on this guy, the baso-lateral ponctuation of the pronotum is easy to see, and it is probably effectivly P. adstrictus.
… Pierre-Marc Brousseau, 1 June, 2007 - 7:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank you, Pierre-Marc.
I'm adding a better dorsal view of the pronotum as well as some other views.
… Jim McClarin, 2 June, 2007 - 1:16am login or register to post comments

 
Pterostichus adstrictus vs pensylvanicus
By far the best account to distinguish Pterostichus adstrictus vs pensylvanicus on external characters is the article "Number of Clip Setae on Protibia as a Diagnostic Character Between..." - Y.Bousquet in The Coleopterists Bulletin 40(4):353-354, 1986. I find external traits of decreasing reliability to be 1: number of clip setae, 2: ratio of elytra/pronotum lengths, 3: curvature of lateral pronotal margin, 4: degree of convexity lateral to posterolateral foveae of pronotum. Most other external differences cited in Lindroth (1961-1969) are very unreliable. Traits for P. adstrictus vs pensylanicus are respectively 1: 3 vs 2, 2: 2.35 - 2.70 vs 2.15 - 2.35, 3: straighter toward hind angles and widest clearly before middle vs evenly rounded toward hind angles and widest near middle, 4: flatter vs more convex and continuous with convexity of pronotal disc.
… Peter W. Messer, 13 July, 2007 - 8:09pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Peter.
Based on pronotum:elytra ratio this has to be P. adstrictus then.
… Jim McClarin, 13 July, 2007 - 10:12pm login or register to post comments

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