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Genus Sericoda

Sericoda bembidioides Kirby - Sericoda bembidioides Sericoda quadripunctata Carabid under wood - Sericoda bembidioides Sericoda bogemannii Ground Beetle - Sericoda obsoleta Sericoda Mt Lemmon carabid - Sericoda bembidioides Sericoda from the top of Steptoe Butte - Sericoda quadripunctata
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 Platynini
Genus Sericoda
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
used to be treated as part of Agonum
Explanation of Names
Sericoda Kirby 1837
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, 8 total(1)
Range
New World & Eurasia; all but one of our spp. are holarctic(1)
Remarks
Members of this genus are pyrophiles (attracted to fire) and are often seen in large numbers during and after forest fires (Lindroth 1966)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.