Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Nebria Latreille 1806
Synonyms:
Nebriola Daniel 1903
Paranebria Jeannel 1937
Neonebria Hatch 1939
Numbers
56 species in 4 subgenera in our area.
(1)(2)(3)(4)
Species: (List follows
(5) with additions in
(2)(3)(4))
Subgenus Boreonebria - 10 species
Nebria bellorum Kavanaugh
(2)
Nebria crassicornis Van Dyke
Nebria frigida R.F. Sahlberg
Nebria gouleti Kavanaugh (ID, OR, WA)
Nebria gyllenhali Schoenherr
Nebria paradisi Darlington (OR, WA)
Nebria turmaduodecima Kavanaugh (CA)
Subgenus Catonebria - 21 species
Nebria calva Kavanaugh (AZ)
Nebria carri Kavanaugh (ID)
Nebria catenata Casey (CO, UT)
Nebria coloradensis Kavanaugh (CO)
Nebria gebleri Dejean (6 subspecies)
Nebria ingens Kavanaugh (CA, 2 subspecies)
Nebria kincaidi Schwarz (2 subspecies)
Nebria labontei Kavanaugh (OR)
Nebria meanyi Van Dyke (4 subspecies)
Nebria metallica Fischer von Waldheim
Nebria piperi Van Dyke (AK, BC, OR, WA)
Nebria piute Erwin & Ball (UT; 3 subspecies)
Nebria praedicta Kavanaugh & Schoville (CA)
(3)
Nebria purpurata LeConte (CO, NM)
Nebria schwarzi Van Dyke (2 subspecies)
Nebria sierrablancae Kavanaugh (NM)
Nebria spatulata Van Dyke (CA; 2 subspecies)
Nebria steensensis Kavanaugh (OR)
Nebria trifaria LeConte (2 subspecies)
Nebria vandykei Banninger (OR, WA; 2 subspecies)
Subgenus Nebria - one species
Nebria brevicollis (Fabricius)
Subgenus Reductonebria - 24 species
Nebria acuta Lindroth (western, 3 ssp.)
Nebria appalachia Darlington (NC, TN)
Nebria arkansana Casey (western, 4 ssp.)
Nebria charlottae Lindroth (BC)
Nebria danmanni Kavanaugh (WA)
Nebria darlingtoni Kavanaugh (CA)
Nebria desolata Kavanaugh (UT)
Nebria eschscholtzii Menetries
Nebria georgei Kavanaugh (AZ)
(4)
Nebria gregaria Fischer von Waldheim
Nebria haida Kavanaugh (BC)
Nebria jeffreyi Kavanaugh (OR)
Nebria louiseae Kavanaugh (BC)
Nebria lyelli Van Dyke (CA)
Nebria mannerheimii Fischer von Waldheim
Nebria navajo Kavanaugh (AZ)
Nebria obliqua LeConte (2 subspecies)
Nebria sahlbergi Fischer von Waldheim (3 subspecies)
Nebria suturalis LeConte (AB, CO, LB, NH, NY, ON, PQ, VT, WY)
Nebria wallowae Kavanaugh (OR)
Nebria zioni Van Dyke (UT, 2 subspecies)
Identification
Keys:
Kavanaugh
(6) has most comprehensive key to our fauna, but many taxonomic changes and a few new species have been added since its publication.
Downie & Arnett for NE species
(7) (couplet 1 correction - should be pronotum with or without
midlateral setae)
Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
(8) - considers only N. pallipes
Range
Cooler areas of the northern hemisphere, mostly Holarctic; in North America, from the arctic south to NM/AZ along the Rockies and to VA/TN in the Appalachians. Most Nearctic species are western.
(1)Habitat
Adults of most of this species rest and hunt for prey under stones and rubble along the margins of cool or cold streams; a few inhabit wet places in forested areas, and rest under leaf litter; high montane species are known to hunt for prey on snow fields at night
(1)