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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Odacanthini » Long-necked Ground Beetles (Colliuris) » subgenus Cosnania (Colliuris subgenus Cosnania) » Colliuris pensylvanica

Species Colliuris pensylvanica

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Season · Food · Remarks · Works Cited

Long-necked Ground Beetle - Colliuris pensylvanica

Colliuris pensylvanica (Linnaeus) - Colliuris pensylvanica

Colliuris pensylvanica? - 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)

No Taxon (subgenus Cosnania)

Species pensylvanica (Colliuris pensylvanica)

Other Common Names

Long-necked Ground Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Colliuris pensylvanica (Linnaeus)

Orig. Comb: Attelabus pensylvanicus Linnaeus 1767

Numbers

7 spp. n. of Mex. (1)

Size

6-8 mm (2)

Identification

Unique shape characterizes this genus, and they are likely ant mimics (3). Head and pronotum black, parts of head and pronotum reddish in the similar C. ludoviciana.

Range

e NA to AZ (AZ-FL-QC-ND) / Mex. / W. Indies - Map (4)(5)

Habitat

in leaf litter, under logs/stones (3), on vegetation in wet areas (6)

Season

mostly May-Sept (BG data)

Food

possible aphid predator

Remarks

comes to lights (2)

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.

2.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.

3.	A Manual of Common Beetles of Eastern North America Dillon, Elizabeth S., and Dillon, Lawrence. 1961. Row, Peterson, and Company.

4.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

5.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

6.	Peterson Field Guides: Beetles Richard E. White. 1983. Houghton Mifflin Company.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 23 January, 2005 - 9:46pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Peter Messer, John Schneider, v belov
Last updated 9 June, 2019 - 2:02am

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