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Species Metacolpodes buchanani

Gorgeous Green Carabid - Metacolpodes buchanani - male

Metacolpodes buchanani female... - Metacolpodes buchanani - female

Metacolpodes buchanani - Metacolpodes buchanani - male

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 Platynini

Genus Metacolpodes

Species buchanani (Metacolpodes buchanani)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

=Colpodes buchanani

=buchannani (original spelling now rejected under the "prevailing usage" rule)

Identification

dorsal habitus

Range

native to e. Asia, accidentally introduced to the Pacific Northwest(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.

Contributed by v belov on 3 February, 2011 - 10:41pm
Last updated 13 October, 2011 - 12:31pm

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