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

Species Elaphropus anceps

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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 Trechinae
Tribe Bembidiini
Subtribe Tachyina
Genus Elaphropus
No Taxon (subgenus Barytachys)
Species anceps (Elaphropus anceps)
Explanation of Names
Elaphropus anceps (LeConte 1848)
Identification
Among other subtle differences, head is usually brownish vs blackish in most E. incurvus
Range
NS-AB-so.NT south to MD-LA-AZ(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.