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Species Agonum galvestonicum

Carabid - Agonum galvestonicum small black carabid with tapered pronotum - Agonum galvestonicum - 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 Agonum
No Taxon (Subgenus Europhilus)
Species galvestonicum (Agonum galvestonicum)
Explanation of Names
Agonum galvestonicum (Casey 1920)
Range
e. US (PA-SC to MI-MO-TX) + southernmost ON(1)
Habitat
Strongly associated with Cattails (Typha). Mostly found sheltering in the sheaths at the base of the plants(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.A natural history of the ground-beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of America north of Mexico.
Larochelle and Larivière. 2003. Pensoft Publishers, Bulgaria. 584 pp.