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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Scaritinae » Clivinini » Clivinina » Clivina » subgenus Clivina (Clivina subgenus Clivina) » Clivina fossor

Species Clivina fossor

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Life Cycle · Works Cited
fossorial ground beetle - Clivina fossor Scaritin - Clivina fossor Scaritin - Clivina fossor Carabid - Clivina fossor Ground beetle (Clivina sp.) - Clivina fossor Clivina fossor (QC) - Clivina fossor Carabidae - Clivina fossor Clivina fossor
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Scaritinae
Tribe Clivinini
Subtribe Clivinina
Genus Clivina
No Taxon (subgenus Clivina)
Species fossor (Clivina fossor)
Explanation of Names
Clivina fossor (Linnaeus 1758)
Numbers
2 sspp. total; in our area, C. f. fossor(1)
Size
5.5-6.5 mm(2)
Identification
dorsum uniformly dark or pronotal disc paler(2)
Range
native to the Palaearctic, adventive in NA and now widespread in ne. & nw. NA (NF-ON-MN to PA-?IL-WI; BC-OR to SK-WY)(1)(3)
Habitat
open/wet places: fields, orchards, gravel/sand pits, roadsides, water margins, forest edges/clearings(2)
Life Cycle
earliest record in our area: QC 1915(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.
3.The ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) of the Maritime Provinces of Canada...
C.G. Majka, Y. Bousquet, & S. Westby. 2007. Zootaxa 1590: 1–36.
Contributed by tom murray on 18 June, 2008 - 8:53pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd, v belov
Last updated 19 March, 2017 - 10:08am

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