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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Trechinae » Trechini » Trechus

Genus Trechus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Small ground beetle - Trechus obtusus Trechus quadristriatus Trechus vandykei pisgahensis - Trechus vandykei - male Carabid - Trechus Trechus apicalis - male Trechus oregonensis - Trechus - female Trechus oregonensis - Trechus - female carabid - Trechus quadristriatus
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Trechinae
Tribe Trechini
Genus Trechus
Explanation of Names
Trechus Clairville 1806
Greek 'runner'
Numbers
~70 spp. (of which 3 adventive) in 2 subgenera in our area, ~900 spp. in 8 subgenera worldwide (~90% of the spp. are in the nominate subgenus)(1)
Range
much of the world but >92% of spp. are Palaearctic; in our area, across NA, but by far most diverse in Appalachia (9 spp., incl. all three adventive ones, occur in Canada)(1)
Habitat
native spp. mostly in forest litter(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.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 Jim McClarin on 21 December, 2006 - 8:00pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 17 September, 2023 - 8:56pm

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