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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Chlaeniini » Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles (Chlaenius) » subgenus Randallius (Chlaenius subgenus Randallius) » Chlaenius purpuricollis
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Carabidae - Chlaenius purpuricollis
Copyright © 2015 Kevin Hinson

Carabidae - Chlaenius purpuricollis
Larimer County, Colorado, USA
July 5, 2011
Size: 10 mm
Not very visible here, but specimen has a purple hue.

Collected in pitfall trap

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Contributed by Kevin Hinson on 19 June, 2015 - 4:23pm
Last updated 19 June, 2015 - 8:18pm

Can you share what type of ha
Can you share what type of habitat you found it at? I looked up Latimer(edited: Larimer) County, it seems this cool carabid might also occur in my area of Utah. So far I suspect rocky shores of high elevation lakes.
… Jonathan W. Quist, 30 July, 2016 - 10:00am login or register to post comments

Moved tentatively... very cool
Moved from Harpalinae.
… v belov, 19 June, 2015 - 8:18pm login or register to post comments

what an odd thing... the punctation, the tiny head... not a clue
suspect one of the missing oodine genera

Moved from ID Request.
… v belov, 19 June, 2015 - 6:04pm login or register to post comments

 
Chlaenius purpuricollis Randall, 1838:35
here you are folks, nice species, but we need a much better pic!
… Terry Erwin, 19 June, 2015 - 8:19pm login or register to post comments

 
awesome.
… v belov, 19 June, 2015 - 8:24pm login or register to post comments

 
Nice. I'll try rekeying this
Nice. I'll try rekeying this guy with this ID just to see where I went wrong in the key...I ended up in Oodini.
… Kevin Hinson, 19 June, 2015 - 9:56pm login or register to post comments

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