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Species Ophonus puncticeps

Ground beetle on Queen Anne's Lace - Ophonus puncticeps

Ground beetles Ophonus puncticeps? - Ophonus puncticeps - male - female

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 Harpalina

Genus Ophonus

Species puncticeps (Ophonus puncticeps)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Harpalus puncticeps

Explanation of Names

Ophonus puncticeps Stephens 1828

Identification

pronotum & elytra densely punctate and pubescent

Range

native to the Palaearctic, adventive and widespread in ne. NA (NS-NJ-IA)(1)

Remarks

earliest record in our area: NY 1954(1)

See Also

Amphasia interstitialis

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Jim McClarin on 23 August, 2005 - 6:51pm
Additional contributions by tom murray, Bbarnd, Peter Messer, v belov
Last updated 9 February, 2014 - 12:34pm

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