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Genus Dromius

Blackish/Reddish Beetle - Dromius piceus Dromius piceus Small carabid - Dromius piceus Beetle -Plochionus timidus - Dromius piceus beetle - Dromius piceus carabid - Dromius piceus Dromius piceus? - Dromius piceus Ground beetle - Dromius piceus
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 Lebiini
Subtribe Dromiusina
Genus Dromius
Explanation of Names
Dromius Bonelli 1810
Numbers
2 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area (both in the nominate subgenus that contains a half of world fauna), >100 spp. in 3 subgenera total(1)
Size
5-8 mm
Range
worldwide, most diverse in Eurasia; in our area, the native D. piceus is widespread across the continent and the European D. fenestratus in Atlantic Canada (NF-NS)(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.