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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 Chlaeniellus (Chlaenius subgenus Chlaeniellus) » nemoralis group (Chlaenius nemoralis group) » Chlaenius tricolor » Chlaenius tricolor tricolor
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Chlaenius emarginatus - Chlaenius tricolor
Copyright © 2018 Marci Hess

Chlaenius emarginatus - Chlaenius tricolor
Argyle township, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, USA
August 5, 2017
Size: 14mm
Caught in solar panel bucket trap.

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Contributed by Marci Hess on 11 January, 2018 - 3:23pm
Last updated 12 January, 2018 - 2:35pm

Moved
Based on Peter's input below.
Moved from Vivid Metallic Ground Beetles.
… Curt Harden, 12 January, 2018 - 11:12am login or register to post comments

This should be checked again with the keys,
Chlaenius emarginatus is pretty different- has VERY long mandibles, most noticeably. Also the pronotum is shaped differently.
This looks like it could be tricolor, but there are some similar species.

Moved from Chlaenius emarginatus.
… Curt Harden, 11 January, 2018 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

 
emarginatus mandibles, for comparison:
… Curt Harden, 11 January, 2018 - 5:37pm login or register to post comments

 
Using reference insects.
We were using reference insects for this. Will double check next week when I have access to the collection.
… Marci Hess, 11 January, 2018 - 5:44pm login or register to post comments

 
Subgenus Chlaeniellus in Wisconsin
with apparent bicolored dorsum and straight labrum must be common Chlaenius tricolor tricolor. I'm always curious about the whereabouts of Wisconsin caraboid specimens. I gathered by "reference" insects you meant a small collection of index species at your field side. The "collection" you spoke of might be one of the university collections - the best being WIRC (Madison) or MPM (Milwaukee) for comparative study.
… Peter W. Messer, 12 January, 2018 - 8:25am login or register to post comments

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