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Subfamily Harpalinae

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Ground beetle - Pterostichus 926C40 - Selenophorus fatuus Beetle - Agonoleptus conjunctus Ground Beetle - Anisodactylus similis Tetragonoderus - Tetragonoderus fasciatus Cymindis punctifera? - Cymindis punctifera Dicaelus furvus - male Lebia? - Lebia pulchella

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Harpalinae

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

more recently circumscribed narrowly, e.g. in (1), with the taxa of our fauna currently treated in Harpalinae in BG divided between Ctenodactylinae, Dryptinae, Harpalinae, Lebiinae, Licininae, Panagaeinae, Platyninae, and Pterostichinae

Explanation of Names

Harpalinae Bonelli 1810

Numbers

by far the largest carabid subfamily, with ~1230 spp. in ~120 genera of 23 tribes in our area, ~6,400 spp. in 24 tribes worldwide(2)

Range

worldwide and throughout NA(2)

Works Cited

1.Catalogue of Life
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by Phillip Harpootlian on 9 May, 2005 - 8:40am
Additional contributions by cotinis, v belov
Last updated 20 May, 2025 - 8:20pm

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