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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Platynini » Agonum » Subgenus Olisares (Agonum Subgenus Olisares) » extensicolle group (Agonum extensicolle group) » Agonum cyanopis

Species Agonum cyanopis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Carabid - Agonum cyanopis Blue Carabid - Agonum cyanopis Agonum? - Agonum cyanopis Agonum cyanopis
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 Platynini
Genus Agonum
No Taxon (Subgenus Olisares)
No Taxon (extensicolle group)
Species cyanopis (Agonum cyanopis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
The spelling Agonum cyanope, used by modern authors since the 1980s, is incorrect(1)
Explanation of Names
Agonum cyanopis (Bates 1882)
Identification
A uniformly dark species (including antennae & appendages) with metallic blue to purple sheen on forebody.
Range
NM-AZ, Mexico(1)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by tom murray on 7 September, 2009 - 8:11pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 8 December, 2012 - 1:28pm

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