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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Nebriinae » Notiophilini » Notiophilus » Notiophilus biguttatus

Species Notiophilus biguttatus

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Size · Identification · Range · Food · Internet References · Works Cited

Notiophilus? -Perhaps N. aquaticus? - Notiophilus biguttatus

Tiny bronze beetle - Notiophilus biguttatus

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Genus Notiophilus - Notiophilus biguttatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Nebriinae

Tribe Notiophilini

Genus Notiophilus

Species biguttatus (Notiophilus biguttatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Notiophilus biguttatus (Fabricius, 1779)

Synonyms:

Elaphrus biguttatus Fabricius 1719

Size

4.7 to 6 mm (1)(2)

Identification

Shiny bronze color, the tips of the elytra are of lighter color; huge head with bulbous eyes.

Elytra with two preapical setigerous punctures; legs and antennae not entirely pale; elytral intervals smooth, shiny on basal 1/2; striae 2-3 continue to apex; elytra with distinct pale apical vitta. (2)

Range

Introduced from Europe; recorded in Maritime Provinces, New England, BC

North American range is BC, ME, NB, NF, NH, NS, PM (3)

Also WA, ON, and MA based on BugGuide records.

Food

Small insects, springtails.

Internet References

Wikipedia article

Encylopedia of Life

Watford Coleoptera Group - nice images and description

NatureSpot.org - information and images

Works Cited

1.	The ground-beetles (Carabidae, excl. Cicindelinae) of Canada and Alaska, parts 1—6 C.H. Lindroth. 1961. Opuscula Entomologica Supplementa XX, XXIV, XXIX, XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXV.

2.	The Beetles of Northeastern North America, Vol. 1 and 2. Downie, N.M., and R.H. Arnett. 1996. The Sandhill Crane Press, Gainesville, FL.

3.	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 v belov on 29 March, 2009 - 8:49pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, Bbarnd
Last updated 18 April, 2012 - 7:48pm

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