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Genus Diplochaetus

Diplochaetus rutilus (Chevrolat) - Diplochaetus rutilus

Taking a guess here, Pogonini - Diplochaetus planatus

Diplochaetus planatus (Horn, 1876) - Diplochaetus planatus - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Trechinae

Tribe Pogonini

Genus Diplochaetus

Explanation of Names

Diplochaetus Chaudoir 1872

Numbers

4 spp. in the genus, all in our area(1)

Range

Nearctic genus; D. rutilus ranges from NJ to Colombia & Venezuela(1)(2)

Habitat

margins of saline lakes(3)

Works Cited

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

2.	Taxonomic review of the New World Pogonini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Y. Bousquet and S. Laplante . 1997. The Canadian Entomologist, 129:(4) 699-731.

3.	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 v belov on 21 April, 2009 - 11:02am
Additional contributions by Bbarnd
Last updated 4 March, 2013 - 8:00am

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