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Species Agonum octopunctatum

green punctate carabid - Agonum octopunctatum

Ground Beetle (Agonum octopunctatum?) - Agonum octopunctatum

Green Metallic Ground Beetle - Agonum octopunctatum

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 Agonum

No Taxon (Subgenus Olisares)

Species octopunctatum (Agonum octopunctatum)

Explanation of Names

Agonum octopunctatum (Fabricius 1798)

Size

~8 mm

Identification

green, with 8 dimples on the dorsal surface.

Range

e. NA (NS-se.MB to c.FL-c.TX) - Map (1)(2)

Remarks

our only member of the octopunctatum group(1)

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 tom murray on 14 March, 2006 - 9:57am
Additional contributions by Mike Quinn, v belov
Last updated 6 March, 2024 - 2:02pm

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