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Subgenus Chrysostigma

- - Calosoma semilaeve Calosoma calidum ? - Calosoma calidum Carabidae - Fiery Hunter, head & pronotum - Calosoma calidum Large black Caterpillar Hunter (Ground Beetle) on a mission - Calosoma semilaeve Callisthenes cancellatus - Calosoma cancellatum Callisthenes cancellatus - Calosoma cancellatum Calosoma semilaeve? simplex? - Calosoma semilaeve Calosoma semilaeve - male
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Carabinae
Tribe Carabini
Genus Calosoma (Caterpillar Hunter Beetles)
No Taxon Subgenus Chrysostigma
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
=calidus species group of Lindroth 1961
Explanation of Names
Chrysostigma Kirby 1837
Numbers
9 spp. in our area(1)
Range
so. Canada to Brazil(1)
Works Cited
1.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.