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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Subfamily Scaritinae

Clivina impressifrons - Clivina fossor Ground beetle 2 - Clivina pallida Some kind of Stag Beetle? - Scarites Carabidae Pasimachus? - Pasimachus californicus Scaritini? - Scarites lissopterus Scarites - Scarites subterraneus Scarites subterraneus? - Scarites Clivina? - Paraclivina
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Scaritinae
Numbers
two tribes, with >130 spp. in 11 genera in our area, and ca. 110 genera worldwide(1)
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.