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Genus Diplochaetus

Diplochaetus rutilus (Chevrolat) - Diplochaetus rutilus Diplochaetus rutilus (Chevrolat) - Diplochaetus rutilus Diplochaetus rutilus (Chevrolat) - Diplochaetus rutilus 082711Beetle - Diplochaetus rutilus Taking a guess here, Pogonini - Diplochaetus planatus Carabid - Diplochaetus rutilus Carabid - Diplochaetus rutilus Diplochaetus planatus (Horn, 1876) - Diplochaetus planatus - female
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 Pogonini
Genus Diplochaetus
Explanation of Names
Diplochaetus Chaudoir 1872
Numbers
4 spp. in the genus, all in our area(1)
Range
Nearctic genus; D. rutilus ranges from NJ to Colombia & Venezuela(1)(2)
Habitat
margins of saline lakes(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.Taxonomic review of the New World Pogonini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Y. Bousquet and S. Laplante . 1997. The Canadian Entomologist, 129:(4) 699-731.
3.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.