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Tribe Oodini

Green, metallic ground beetle with white legs - Stenocrepis cuprea

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 Oodini

Numbers

17 spp. in 7 genera in our area, ~270 spp. in ~30 genera worldwide(1)

Range

worldwide; in our area, mostly eastern(1)

Print References

(2)

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.	Taxonomic revision of Nearctic, Mexican, and West Indian Oodini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Y. Bousquet. 1996. The Canadian Entomologist 128: 443-537.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 3 December, 2007 - 9:35pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 28 October, 2011 - 1:05am

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