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Genus Cychrus - Rare Snail-eating Beetles

Ground Beetle sp (Cychrus tuberculatus) - Cychrus tuberculatus Large black beetle - Cychrus tuberculatus Cychrus tuberculatus - female Cychrus tuberculatus  ? - Cychrus tuberculatus Carabid? - Cychrus hemphillii Cychrus hemphillii hemphilli? - Cychrus hemphillii Cychrus tuberculatus Cychrus tuberculatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Carabinae
Tribe Cychrini
Genus Cychrus (Rare Snail-eating Beetles)
Numbers
2 spp. in our area(1) + ~2 dozen in the Palaearctic
Identification
key to spp. in(2)
Range
Holarctic, incl. w. NA (BC-CA east to MT-UT)(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.
2.Revision of ground beetles of American genus Cychrus and four subgenera of genus Scaphinotus (Coleoptera, Carabidae)
T. Gidaspow. 1973. Bull. AMNH 152(2): 51-102.