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Species Galerita bicolor

Ground beetle 10.05.10 - Galerita bicolor

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 bicolor (Galerita bicolor)

Explanation of Names

Galerita bicolor Drury 1773

Size

17.5-22.5 mm(1)

Identification

Can be separated from similar spp. based on shape of head and/or pronotum(2)

heads of G. bicolor and G. janus:

Range

e US (RI-FL to SD-TX)(3)

Season

Feb-Dec in SC(2)

Works Cited

1.	A monographic revision of the American Galeritini (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Reichardt H. 1967. Arquivos de Zoologia 15(1-2): 1-176.

2.	Ground Beetles and Wrinkled Bark Beetles of South Carolina Janet Ciegler. 2000. Clemson University.

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

Contributed by Cotinis on 1 January, 2006 - 2:48pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, Bbarnd, Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 7 January, 2021 - 3:01pm

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