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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Anisodactylina » Anisodactylus » Subgenus Anadaptus (Anisodactylus Subgenus Anadaptus) » Anisodactylus alternans

Species Anisodactylus alternans

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Range · Works Cited
Anisodactylus alternans Anisodactylus alternans Anisodactylus alternans Anisodactylus alternans Anisodactylus alternans Anisodactylus alternans Anisodactylus alternans (Motschulsky 1845) - Anisodactylus alternans - male Anisodactylus alternans - female
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 Anisodactylina
Genus Anisodactylus
No Taxon (Subgenus Anadaptus)
Species alternans (Anisodactylus alternans)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Anisodactylus nivalis G.H. Horn 1880

Bousquet & Larochelle (1993: 14) and Bousquet (2012: 1033) established that Anisodactylus (Anadaptus) alternans (Motschulsky, 1845) is the synonym senior to Anisodactylus alternans LeConte, 1851; Anisodactylus nivalis G.H. Horn, 1880; Anisodactylus parvulus (Casey, 1914). The revision of subgenus Anadaptus by Noonan (2001) unfortunately missed Motschulsky's seniority. Otherwise, Noonan's 2001 key corrects the misplacement of A. alternans in Lindroth's 1968 key. Two colored morphs are sympatric: the bicolored morph and the less common dark morph.
Explanation of Names
Anisodactylus alternans (Motschulsky 1845)
Range
se.BC-CA-CO(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by v belov on 9 October, 2010 - 3:40pm
Additional contributions by Peter Messer
Last updated 8 January, 2019 - 10:16am

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