Species Geopinus incrassatus

Classification · Other Common Names · Explanation of Names · Size · Identification · Range · Habitat · Remarks · 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 Harpalitae

Tribe Harpalini

Subtribe Anisodactylina

Genus Geopinus

Species incrassatus (Geopinus incrassatus)

Other Common Names

"Burrowing Ground Beetle" has sometimes been used to describe this beetle.

Explanation of Names

Geopinus incrassatus (Dejean 1829)

incrassatus = 'thickened'

Size

13-17 mm(1)

Identification

easily recognized on its large size, clumsy appearance, and depigmented body(1); foretibia fossorial, expanded distally into a blade-like structure

Det. B. Barnd, 2011

Range

e NA to Rockies (QC-AB to GA–TX–n.AZ) - Map (2)(3), absent from Gulf and s. Atlantic coasts

Habitat

open places: dunes, sand pits, often along rivers, on sandy soils(1)

Remarks

Adults fly at night and come to lights(4)

Works Cited

1.	Illustrated Identification Guide to Adults and Larvae of Northeastern North American Ground Beetles (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Yves Bousquet. 2010. Pensoft Publishers.

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

3.	Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

4.	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.

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