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Genus Sericoda

Sericoda bembidioides Kirby - Sericoda bembidioides

Carabid under wood - Sericoda bembidioides

Sericoda bembidioides - Sericoda bembidioides

Sericoda from the top of Steptoe Butte - Sericoda quadripunctata

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 Sericoda

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

used to be treated as part of Agonum

Explanation of Names

Sericoda Kirby 1837

Numbers

4 spp. in our area, 8 total(1)

Range

New World & Eurasia; all but one of our spp. are holarctic(1)

Remarks

Members of this genus are pyrophiles (attracted to fire) and are often seen in large numbers during and after forest fires (Lindroth 1966)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by Tim Loh on 22 January, 2010 - 12:48am
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 19 December, 2018 - 5:36pm

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