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Subgenus Hypherpes

Pterostichus? - Pterostichus Pterostichus castaneus Woodland Ground Beetle - Pterostichus herculaneus SBBG-SCL-TIC_000209 - Pterostichus SBBG-SCL-TIC_000209 - Pterostichus Carabidae found under a rock, in a creek - Pterostichus Hypherpes  - Pterostichus crenicollis Cow Creek-J.1972.03 - Pterostichus lama
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 Pterostichini (Woodland Ground Beetles)
Genus Pterostichus
No Taxon Subgenus Hypherpes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
ca. two dozen spp. have been recently moved to the reinstated subgenera Anilloferonia and Leptoferonia(1)
Explanation of Names
Hypherpes Chaudoir 1838
Numbers
NA's most speciose subgenus of ~60 described and multiple undescribed spp., all in our area and arranged into 22 groups(1)(2)
Range
all but 2 spp. are western (west coast to the Rockies), P. adoxus & P. tristis are eastern (se. Canada to NC-TN)(3)
Works Cited
1.Phylogeny and classification of Hypherpes auctorum (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichini: Pterostichus)
Will K.W., Gill A.S. 2008. Ann. Carnegie Mus. 77: 93‒127.
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
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.