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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Chlaeniini » Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles (Chlaenius) » subgenus Chlaenius (Chlaenius subgenus Chlaenius) » laticollis group (Chlaenius laticollis group) » Chlaenius laticollis

Species Chlaenius laticollis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Unknown Beetle - Chlaenius laticollis - male Chlaenius erythropus? - Chlaenius laticollis - female Chlaenius laticollis Say - Chlaenius laticollis Chlaenius laticollis Say - Chlaenius laticollis Chlaenius laticollis Chlaenius laticollis - Chlaenius laticollis Chlaenius laticollis - male Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles - Chlaenius - Chlaenius laticollis
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 Chlaeniini
Genus Chlaenius (Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Chlaenius)
No Taxon (laticollis group)
Species laticollis (Chlaenius laticollis)
Explanation of Names
Chlaenius laticollis Say 1823
Identification
Among other differences, pronotum is duller dark bluish compared to that of bright metallic green in C. sericeus
Range
e. US to AZ (s.ME-s.ON-e.NE to FL-TX-AZ) & Mexico(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by tom murray on 11 October, 2008 - 11:21am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 10 April, 2015 - 3:47pm

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