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Genus Pogonus

Pogonus texanus Chaudoir - Pogonus texanus
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 Pogonus
Explanation of Names
Pogonus Dejean 1821
Numbers
A single species in our area, ~55 spp. in 2 subgenera total(1)
Range
much of the world (mostly Palaearctic; none in the Neotropics or Indomalayan reg.); in our area, along the Gulf of Mexico (sw.LA to se.TX) +NJ(1)(2)
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.