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Species Pasimachus subsulcatus

Ground Beetle - Pasimachus marginatus? - Pasimachus subsulcatus

'Small' Pasimachus - Pasimachus subsulcatus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Scaritinae

Tribe Pasimachini

Genus Pasimachus

No Taxon (marginatus group)

Species subsulcatus (Pasimachus subsulcatus)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

floridanus, opacipennis, subnitens

Explanation of Names

Pasimachus subsulcatus Say 1823

Size

19-22 mm(1)

Identification

Small species, no median pairs of setae on ventrites 2-5; dorsal fixed, subapical mesotibial spine or spur not laterally compressed, acute tipped; posterior margin of pronotum markedly emarginate above scutellum; lateral pronotal margins just barely crenulate very slightly before the hind angles.

Mesotibial spine:

Crenulate portion of pronotum:

Range

SC-FL-LA, probably restricted to coastal plains(2)

See Also

P. sublaevis

Works Cited

1.	A key to adult Nearctic Pasimachus (Pasimachus) Bonelli (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Scaritini)... Purrington F.F., Drake C.J. 2005. Entomological News 116: 253-262.

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

Contributed by v belov on 9 March, 2010 - 3:28am
Additional contributions by Boris Bueche, Arturo Santos
Last updated 5 September, 2022 - 9:56pm

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