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Genus Stenomorphus

Stenomorphus californicus (Ménétries) - Stenomorphus californicus - female Very narrow Carabid - Stenomorphus sinaloae Stenomorphus - Stenomorphus californicus ref photo for peter Messer - Stenomorphus californicus Stenomorphus californicus rufipes - Stenomorphus californicus Stenomorphus sinaloae or convexior? - Stenomorphus Stenomorphus? - Stenomorphus convexior Stenomorphus californicus rufipes subspecies of - Stenomorphus californicus
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 Harpalina
Genus Stenomorphus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Stenomorpha is a genus in the Tenebrionidae
Explanation of Names
Stenomorphus Dejean 1831
Greek 'slender-shaped'(1)
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, 6 total(1)
Identification
key to spp. in(2)
Range
so. US to S. America; in our area, S. californicum is widespread (AL-NE-TX), the other two spp. restricted to so. AZ & NM(1)
Remarks
Adults nocturnal, come to lights(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.The New World genus Stenomorphus Dejean (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Harpalini)...
Ball G.E., Shpeley D., Currie D.C. 1991. The Canadian Entomologist 123: 933-988.
3.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.