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For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Oodes

oval ground beetle - Oodes fluvialis Oodes amaroides Dejean - Oodes amaroides Black Satin Beetle - Oodes Carabid - Oodes amaroides Carabid - Oodes amaroides Carabid - Oodes amaroides Beetle - Oodes Oodes fluvialis - female
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
Genus Oodes
Explanation of Names
Oodes Bonelli 1810
Numbers
4 spp. in our area, ~50 total(1)
Range
e. NA and much of the Old World(1)
Habitat
marshes/swamps(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.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.