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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Anisodactylina » Anisodactylus » Subgenus Gynandrotarsus (Anisodactylus Subgenus Gynandrotarsus) » rusticus group (Anisodactylus rusticus group) » Anisodactylus merula

Species Anisodactylus merula

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Anisodactylus merula (Germar) - Anisodactylus merula Carabid - Anisodactylus merula - male Carabid - Anisodactylus merula - male Anisodactylus merula - female Anisodactylus merula - female Anisodactylus merula - Anisodactylus merula - male Anisodactylus merula - Anisodactylus merula - male Carabidae - Anisodactylus merula
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 Anisodactylina
Genus Anisodactylus
No Taxon (Subgenus Gynandrotarsus)
No Taxon (rusticus group)
Species merula (Anisodactylus merula)
Explanation of Names
Anisodactylus merula (Germar 1824)
Size
10.3-13.7 mm(1)
Range
e. NA (so.QC-MB south to FL-TX) - Map (2)(3)
Habitat
open places: fields, vacant lots, orchards, roadsides, sand/gravel pits, forest edges/clearings, usually on sandy soils with scattered vegetation(1)
Works Cited
1.Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by v belov on 14 May, 2009 - 9:32am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 31 July, 2019 - 2:26pm

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