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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Scaritinae » Clivinini » Clivinina » Schizogenius

Genus Schizogenius

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Scaritinae
Tribe Clivinini
Subtribe Clivinina
Genus Schizogenius
Explanation of Names
Schizogenius Putzeys 1846
Numbers
24 spp. (in 2 subgenera) in our area (all but one sp. are in the nominate subgenus; our spp. are arranged into 9 species-groups), 75 spp. in 3 subgenera total(1)
Identification
Prominent lengthwise grooves on top of head and pronotum(2)
keys to spp. in Whitehead (1972)(3)
Range
New World, more diverse in the Neotropics; in our area, most spp. restricted to so. US but several widespread in the east (3 reach Canada) and a couple, in the west(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2000. Clemson University.
3.Classification, phylogeny, and zoogeography of Schizogenius Putzeys (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritini)
Whitehead D.R. 1972. Quaestiones entomologicae 8: 131-348.
Contributed by Cotinis on 24 November, 2006 - 6:05pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 29 June, 2022 - 1:37pm

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