Genus Colliuris - Long-necked Ground Beetles

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Range · Remarks · Works Cited

Colliuris lioptera? - Colliuris lioptera

Beetle to black light - Colliuris pensylvanica

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 Odacanthini

Genus Colliuris (Long-necked Ground Beetles)

Explanation of Names

Colliuris DeGeer 1774

Numbers

7 spp. in our area, >80 total(1)

Range

Western Hemisphere; in our area: C. pensylvanica widespread and reaches se. Canada; C. ludoviciana e. US along the Atlantic & Gulf coast; 3 spp. in AZ, 1 sp. in so.TX, & 1 sp. in so.FL(1)

Remarks

subgenera in or area:

Mimocasnonia: C. pilatei so. AZ

Cosnania: C. pensylvanica widespread, se. Canada to CA; C. lengi se. AZ

Calocolliuris: C. ludoviciana Coastal Plain: NY‒FL‒LA; C. lioptera se. AZ; C. caymanensis FL; C. tetrastigma so. TX

Works Cited

1.	Review of the Nearctic, Mexican and West Indian (Greater Antilles) species of Colliuris Degeer (Col.: Carabidae: Odacanthini) Y. Bousquet. 2010. Zootaxa 2529: 1–39.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 23 January, 2005 - 9:44pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 20 August, 2023 - 12:20pm

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