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

Species Acupalpus pauperculus

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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 Harpalitae
Tribe Harpalini
Subtribe Stenolophina
Genus Acupalpus
No Taxon (subgenus Tachistodes)
Species pauperculus (Acupalpus pauperculus)
Explanation of Names
Acupalpus pauperculus Dejean 1829
Identification
Uniformly dark elytra that are very shiny non-iridescent, head normal (not enlarged)
Range
e.NA (NS‒FL to ON‒e.SD‒se.CO‒TX)(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.