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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Woodland Ground Beetles (Pterostichini) » Pterostichus » subgenus Paraferonia (Pterostichus subgenus Paraferonia) » Pterostichus lubricus

Species Pterostichus lubricus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Pterostichus (Paraferonia) lubricus LeConte - Pterostichus lubricus - female Pterostichus lubricus - male Pterostichus lubricus - male Pterostichus lubricus - 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 Pterostichitae
Tribe Pterostichini (Woodland Ground Beetles)
Genus Pterostichus
No Taxon (subgenus Paraferonia)
Species lubricus (Pterostichus lubricus)
Explanation of Names
Pterostichus lubricus LeConte 1853
Range
so. Appalchian endemic (VA to n. GA-SC)(1)
Habitat
mainly near seeps, creeks or streams in mixed hardwoods(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America north of Mexico
Y. Bousquet and A. Larochelle. 1993. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 125: 1-397.
2.Coleoptera species pages developed for the GSMNP project
Contributed by v belov on 22 February, 2012 - 5:41am
Additional contributions by Thrasher
Last updated 6 September, 2022 - 4:54pm

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