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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Brachininae » Bombardier Beetle (Brachinus) » fumans group (Brachinus fumans group) » Brachinus cyanipennis

Species Brachinus cyanipennis

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · 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 Brachininae
Genus Brachinus (Bombardier Beetle)
No Taxon (fumans group)
Species cyanipennis (Brachinus cyanipennis)
Explanation of Names
Brachinus cyanipennis Say 1823
Size
8-12 mm(1)
Identification
The most distinctive feature (magnifications required) are the extra long erect setae along elytral interval 3.
Range
e NA (NS-MB to SC-AL-TX-?NM) - Map (2)(3)
Works Cited
1.A reclassification of bombardier beetles and a taxonomic revision of the North and Middle American species...
Erwin T.L. 1970. Quaestiones entomologicae 6: 4-215.
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
3.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by tom murray on 20 July, 2008 - 12:09am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 2 May, 2022 - 7:45pm

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