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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Harpalina » Stenomorphus

Genus Stenomorphus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
Stenomorphus californicus (Ménétries) - Stenomorphus californicus - male Stenomorphus californicus (Ménétries) - Stenomorphus californicus - female Carabid - Stenomorphus convexior Very narrow Carabid - Stenomorphus sinaloae 926C43 - Stenomorphus californicus Ground beetle - Stenomorphus Stenomorphus californicus Stenomorphus californicus rufipes - 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.

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