Genus Sphaeroderus - Small Snail Eating Beetles

Classification · Identification

Ground Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus

Snail-eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus nitidicollis

Small Snail Eating Beetle - Sphaeroderus stenostomus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Carabinae

Tribe Cychrini

Genus Sphaeroderus (Small Snail Eating Beetles)

Identification

A key to the related genera is available on the Info Page - Identification section of tribe Cychrini.

Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 29 March, 2005 - 3:43pm
Additional contributions by Peter Messer
Last updated 4 July, 2009 - 9:05pm

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