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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Harpalina » Harpalus » Subgenus Pseudoophonus (Harpalus Subgenus Pseudoophonus) » pensylvanicus group (Harpalus pensylvanicus group) » Pennsylvania Dingy Ground Beetle (Harpalus pensylvanicus)

Species Harpalus pensylvanicus - Pennsylvania Dingy Ground Beetle

Classification · Other Common Names · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Harpalus? - Harpalus pensylvanicus - 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 Harpalitae

Tribe Harpalini

Subtribe Harpalina

Genus Harpalus

No Taxon (Subgenus Pseudoophonus)

No Taxon (pensylvanicus group)

Species pensylvanicus (Pennsylvania Dingy Ground Beetle)

Other Common Names

Pennsylvania Ground Beetle

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Harpalus pensylvanicus (DeGeer, 1774)

Range

CA-FL-NS-AK (1)

Remarks

Note the single n in pensylvanicus.

Note that a similar species, H. texanus Casey, occurs in the southeastern United States, and it is usually indistinguishable externally from H. pensylvanicus.

See the discussion Harpalus pensylvanicus vs H. texanus which proposes the creation of a special BugGuide page for this externally-inseparable complex when dealing with beetle populations in the coastal states of southeastern USA.

Internet References

The Ground Beetles of Eastern North Carolina Agriculture, NC State Extension Publications.

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of the Geadephaga (Coleoptera: Trachypachidae, Rhysodidae, Carabidae including Cicindelini) of America north of Mexico Y. Bousquet and A. Larochelle. 1993. Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada, 125: 1-397.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 1 June, 2005 - 8:59am
Additional contributions by ghanley1, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Ted Kropiewnicki, Peter Messer, v belov, Edward Ruden
Last updated 18 December, 2023 - 3:08pm

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