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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Galeritini » False Bombardier Beetles (Galerita) » subgenus Progaleritina (Galerita subgenus Progaleritina) » Galerita atripes

Species Galerita atripes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Range · See Also · Print References · 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 Galeritini
Genus Galerita (False Bombardier Beetles)
No Taxon (subgenus Progaleritina)
Species atripes (Galerita atripes)
Explanation of Names
Galerita atripes LeConte 1858
Numbers
17.5-20.8 mm (1)
Identification
eyes not prominent:

Galerita atripes LeConte
Range
sc US to AZ (AZ-LA-MO-NE) / Mex. (2)
See Also
eyes more prominent in:
Galerita mexicana Chaudoir
- Range: AZ-TX-NE
Det. Peter W. Messer, 2008
Print References
LeConte J.L. 1858. Descriptions of new species of Coleoptera, chiefly collected by the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission, under Major W.H.Emory, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 10: 59-89.
Works Cited
1.A monographic revision of the American Galeritini (Coleoptera: Carabidae)
Reichardt H. 1967. Arquivos de Zoologia 15(1-2): 1-176.
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by v belov on 17 November, 2009 - 11:28pm
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn
Last updated 27 December, 2019 - 4:09pm

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