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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » False Ground Beetles (Trachypachidae) » Trachypachus

Genus Trachypachus

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Works Cited
Trachypachidae - Trachypachus holmbergi - Trachypachus inermis Trachypachus gibbsii LeConte - Trachypachus gibbsii Shiny Ground Beetle - Trachypachus trachypachid - Trachypachus gibbsii False Ground Beetle - Trachypachus inermis False Ground Beetle - Trachypachus inermis Trachypachus gibbsii Trachypachus gibbsii
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Trachypachidae (False Ground Beetles)
Genus Trachypachus
Explanation of Names
Trachypachus Motschulsky 1844
Numbers
3 spp. in our area, 4 total(1)
T. gibbsii LeConte
T. inermis Motschulsky (until recently(1) considered T. holmbergi)
T. slevini Van Dyke -- w.OR-WA(2)
Size
3.8-7 mm(2)
Identification
descriptions of nearctic ssp. in(2) (key not provided)
Range
holarctic: n. Eurasia & w. NA (AK-CA to MT-CO)(1)
Habitat
forested areas, in leaf litter(3)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.The ground-beetles (Carabidae, excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska, parts 1—6
C.H. Lindroth. 1961. Opuscula Entomologica Supplementa XX, XXIV, XXIX, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV.
3.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.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 18 January, 2008 - 12:49pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 27 February, 2015 - 5:02pm

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