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Species Clivina americana

Carabidae - Scaritinae? - Clivina americana

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Scaritinae

Tribe Clivinini

Subtribe Clivinina

Genus Clivina

No Taxon (subgenus Leucocara)

Species americana (Clivina americana)

Explanation of Names

Clivina americana Dejean 1831

Size

4.7-6.0 mm(1)

Range

e. NA (NS-FL to SD-TX); Bahamas(2)

Habitat

wet places: edges of marshes, ponds, swamps, lake/river banks; occasionally, beaver houses(1)

Works Cited

1.	Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.

2.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

Contributed by Brad Barnd on 31 December, 2007 - 4:19pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 25 August, 2014 - 1:10pm

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