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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Carabinae » Carabini » Caterpillar Hunter Beetles (Calosoma) » Subgenus Callitropa (Calosoma Subgenus Callitropa) » Calosoma macrum

Species Calosoma macrum

Classification · Explanation of Names · Range · Remarks · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
BIG Black Beetle - Calosoma macrum - female Calosoma macrum LeConte - Calosoma macrum 20160929OA09 - Calosoma macrum 20160929OA09 - Calosoma macrum 20160929OA09 - Calosoma macrum 20160929OA09 - Calosoma macrum 20160929OA09 - Calosoma macrum Carabid larva - Calosoma macrum
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder Adephaga
Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily Carabinae
Tribe Carabini
Genus Calosoma (Caterpillar Hunter Beetles)
No Taxon (Subgenus Callitropa)
Species macrum (Calosoma macrum)
Explanation of Names
Calosoma macrum LeConte 1853
macrum = 'large'
Range
so.-c. US (AR-OK to LA-NM) & ne. Mex. - Map (1)(2)
Remarks
Type Locality: Texas
Print References
LeConte, J.L. 1853. Notes on the classification of the Carabidae of the United States. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, (Series 2) 10: 363-403.
Internet References
Tyoe - MCZ, Harvard
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
Contributed by Mike Quinn on 19 November, 2009 - 7:16am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 30 July, 2021 - 8:06am

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