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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Pterostichitae » Woodland Ground Beetles (Pterostichini) » Pterostichus » Subgenus Bothriopterus (Pterostichus Subgenus Bothriopterus) » mutus group (Pterostichus mutus group) » Pterostichus mutus

Species Pterostichus mutus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Identification · Range · Works Cited
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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 Bothriopterus)
No Taxon (mutus group)
Species mutus (Pterostichus mutus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Pterostichus mutus (Say, 1823)
Identification
Three tiny punctures along elytron interval #3, a smooth convexity (not sharp ridge) between pronotal basal depression and sharp (not rounded) hind angles.
Range
Eastern & central North America, with a disjunct population in British Columbia.

CAN: BC (VCI), MB, NB, NF, NS (CBI), ON, PE, QC
USA: CO, CT, DC, DE, GA, IA, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MT, NC, ND, NE, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, RI, SD, TN, VA, VT, WI, WV [ID needs confirmation] (1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by tom murray on 26 May, 2008 - 1:29pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd
Last updated 24 October, 2021 - 11:23pm

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