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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Woodland Ground Beetles (Pterostichini)

Tribe Pterostichini - Woodland Ground Beetles

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
winter rove beetle larva - Pterostichus Voucher Carabid - Pterostichus lustrans 22Sep2017.BF.P.coleo5 - Pterostichus Pterostichus melanarius? - Pterostichus melanarius 20210603 - Cyclotrachelus substriatus Something in Pterostichini? - Cyclotrachelus Pterostichus ? vernalis - Pterostichus - male Cyclotrachelus unicolor? - Cyclotrachelus unicolor
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 Pterostichitae
Tribe Pterostichini (Woodland Ground Beetles)
Numbers
~250 species in 12 genera in our area(1); thousands of spp. worldwide
Identification
Medium-sized to fairly large, dark, carabids. Most species are diistinctive in "having a crossed elytral epipleuron near the apex of the elytron." (2)
Range
throughout NA and much of the world
Works Cited
1.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.
2.Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina
Janet Ciegler. 2000. Clemson University.
Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 24 April, 2005 - 7:09am
Additional contributions by cotinis, Robin McLeod, v belov, Thrasher
Last updated 28 November, 2022 - 1:32pm

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