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Tribe Pterostichini - Woodland Ground Beetles

Ground Beetle - Cyclotrachelus seximpressus Unknown Carabidae? - Cyclotrachelus Another Pterostichini ? - Pterostichus pumilus - female carabid - Poecilus diplophryus Pterostichus protractus LeConte 1860 - Pterostichus protractus - female Pterostichus stygicus? - Pterostichus stygicus Pterostichus melanarius melanarius - Pterostichus melanarius - male Cyclotrachelus fucatus - female
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)
Numbers
~250 species in 12 genera in our area(1); thousands of spp. worldwide
Identification
Medium-sized to fairly large, dark, carabids. Most species are diistinctive in "having a crossed elytral epipleuron near the apex of the elytron." (2)
Range
throughout NA and much of the world
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2000. Clemson University.