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Genus Pachyteles

Pachyteles gyllenhali (Dejean) - Pachyteles gyllenhalii Pachyteles gyllenhalii  - Pachyteles gyllenhalii Pachyteles gyllenhalii? - Pachyteles gyllenhalii Pachyteles gyllenhalii? - Pachyteles gyllenhalii Pachyteles gyllenhalii? - Pachyteles gyllenhalii Pachyteles gyllenhalii? - Pachyteles gyllenhalii Pachyteles gyllenhalii? - Pachyteles gyllenhalii
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Paussinae
Tribe Ozaenini
Genus Pachyteles
Explanation of Names
Pachyteles Perty 1830
'thick spear' (referring to incrassate antennomere 11)
Identification
Range
sw US (AZ TX) to Chile(2)(3)(1)
Habitat
Adults under bark or on trunks of dead trees; come to lights(2)(1)
Works Cited
1.The Middle American genera of the tribe Ozaenini with notes about the species in the southwestern United States and...
Ball, G.E. and McCleve, S. 1990. Quaestiones Entomologicae, 26: 30-116.
2.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.
3.Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America north of Mexico
Y. Bousquet and A. Larochelle. 1993. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 125: 1-397.