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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Trechinae » Trechitae » Bembidiini » Bembidiina » Bembidion

Genus Bembidion

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Size · Range · Habitat · Remarks · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Bembidion quadrimaculatum? - Bembidion quadrimaculatum

Bembidion impotens Casey - Bembidion impotens

Bembidion gratiosum - Bembidion gratiosum

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Trechinae

Supertribe Trechitae

Tribe Bembidiini

Subtribe Bembidiina

Genus Bembidion

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Amerizus is now treated as a separate genus(1)

Within Bembidion, there are three major clades: the Bembidion, Odontium, and Ocydromus series(2)

Explanation of Names

Bembidion Latreille 1802

Numbers

~275 spp. in our area(3) (incl. 8 adventive) arranged in 37 subgenera and species-groups, >1400 spp.(4) in >100 subgenera & species-groups worldwide(1)

Subgenera not yet in the Guide, per(1):

Actedium (B. lachnophoroides) Whitefox River drainage (SK‒AB)

Lindrochthus (B. wickhami) OR‒CA dorsal habitus

Size

2‒8 mm

Range

Worldwide; ¾ of the spp. in the Northern Hemisphere(1)

Habitat

Prefer open, wet habitats. Highest diversity on river banks.

Remarks

Adults of most spp. are active in daylight(5)

See Also

Tetragonoderus

Internet References

Genus page on ToL

Works Cited

1.	Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.

2.	Phylogeny of Bembidion and related ground beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechinae: Bembidiini: Bembidiina) Maddison D.R. 2012. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 63: 533‒576.

3.	Re-collected after 55 years: a new species of Bembidion (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from California Maddison D.R., Sproul J.S., Will K. 2023. ZooKeys 1156: 87–106.

4.	BioLib.cz

5.	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.

Contributed by tom murray on 2 July, 2005 - 7:03pm
Additional contributions by Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, Boris Bueche, v belov
Last updated 25 November, 2023 - 1:19am

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