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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Harpalina » Harpalus » Subgenus Pseudoophonus (Harpalus Subgenus Pseudoophonus) » pensylvanicus group (Harpalus pensylvanicus group) » Pennsylvania Dingy Ground Beetle (Harpalus pensylvanicus)
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Carabidae - Harpalus pensylvanicus
Copyright © 2018 Bill Hubick

Carabidae - Harpalus pensylvanicus
Assateague Island, Worcester County, Maryland, USA
September 22, 2018
Size: 18 mm
Collected from under building materials on an open, sandy stretch of this barrier island. Hopefully something interesting! Specimen will be sent to Curt Harden.

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Contributed by Bill Hubick on 23 September, 2018 - 3:26pm
Last updated 30 September, 2018 - 2:21pm

Harpalus pensylvanicus
Bill sent me this specimen, and I've confirmed that it is H. pensylvanicus. I dissected this male to make sure it wasn't actually a northern coastal occurrence of the very similar H. texanus, and alas it was not! It will be interesting to see if that species starts occurring further north as average temperatures rise.
Moved from Subgenus Pseudoophonus.
… Curt Harden, 30 September, 2018 - 2:21pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Curt!
Bummer it wasn't something cooler, but always nice to document anything new on a barrier island (new for Assateague per our data so far). I saw a carabid on Block Island, RI this weekend and had my hands full unfortunately.

https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/record.php?record=610324
… Bill Hubick, 30 September, 2018 - 2:43pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Ground Beetles.
… Curt Harden, 23 September, 2018 - 6:34pm login or register to post comments

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