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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Ground and Water Beetles (Adephaga) » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Woodland Ground Beetles (Pterostichini) » Pterostichus

Genus Pterostichus

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Carabid - Pterostichus Carabidae - Pterostichus Carabid Beetle - Pterostichus Pterostichus sp.? - Pterostichus herculaneus - male Pterostichus vermiculosus Pterostichus riparius Pterostichus melanarius larva - Pterostichus Pterostichini ? - Pterostichus melanarius
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Harpalinae
Tribe Pterostichini (Woodland Ground Beetles)
Genus Pterostichus
Numbers
ca. 180 spp. in 23 subgenera in our area(1)(2), ~2000 in Eurasia
Identification
Mentum tooth emarginate at apex (except for honestus group); inner lobe of the maxilla prolonged into a heavily sclerotized, arched, inwardly directed tooth which appears hooked; terminal segment of all palpi cylindrical or fusiform; antennae pubescent from and including the fourth segment; prothorax with single or double laterobasal fovea and with two lateral setae; elytral epipleura crossed. Most species with abbreviated scutellar stria with an ocellate puncture at its base; first metatarsal segment usually with external furrow.
Range
Holarctic + adjacent parts of the Oriental & Neotropical regions(1)
Works Cited
1.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
By Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.)
2.Phylogeny and classification of Hypherpes auctorum (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini: Pterostichus)
By K.W. Will & A.S. Gill
Contributed by Beatriz Moisset on 7 October, 2005 - 6:25am
Additional contributions by Hartmut Wisch, v belov
Last updated 24 April, 2011 - 12:25pm

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