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Genus Cyclotrachelus

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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 Pterostichini (Woodland Ground Beetles)
Genus Cyclotrachelus
Explanation of Names
Cyclotrachelus Chaudoir 1838
Numbers
45 spp. in the genus, all in our area(1)
Size
7-22 mm(2)
Identification
flightless (all spp. brachypterous); pronotum almost as wide as elytra, with a narrowed "waist"; elytra typically striated, punctate(2)(3)
Key to most species in (4)
Range
e.US to AZ (most diverse in the south), with one sp. reaching s.ON and one ranging into Mexico(1)
Habitat
on the ground in deciduous woods and grasslands/meadows
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2000. Clemson University.
3.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.
4.A revision of the species of the genus Evarthrus LeConte (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
R Freitag. 1969. Quaestiones Entomologicae, 5: 89-212.