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Genus Calleida

Calleida fimbriata (Bates) - Calleida fimbriata Calleida decora Green metallic Beetle - Calleida viridipennis green, orange and black beetle - Calleida punctata Calleida punctata Calleida decora? - Calleida decora Platyninae found under a granite slab, very dry situation. - Calleida platynoides Calleida? Maybe C. viridipennis? - Calleida viridipennis
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 Harpalitae
Tribe Lebiini
Subtribe Calleidina
Genus Calleida
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Philophuga used to be treated as a subgenus
Explanation of Names
Calleida Latreille 1824
Numbers
11 spp. (all in the nominate subgenus) in our area, ~280 in 3 subgenera worldwide(1)
Size
7-10 mm
Range
primarily in tropical areas of the Neotropical, Oriental, and Afrotropical Regions (>95% of the world fauna) with a few elements ranging into Holarctic; in our area, most of the US & adjacent Canada: 4 spp. widespread across e. & so. US (two of them range into Canada), the rest have more or less restricted ranges in the extreme so./sw. US(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by Robin McLeod on 25 February, 2005 - 9:21pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 19 January, 2013 - 12:05am

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