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Genus Elaphropus

ref photo for peter Messer - Elaphropus obesulus

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)

Class Insecta (Insects)

Order Coleoptera (Beetles)

Suborder Adephaga (Ground and Water Beetles)

Family Carabidae (Ground Beetles)

Subfamily Trechinae

Tribe Bembidiini

Subtribe Tachyina

Genus Elaphropus

Explanation of Names

Elaphropus Motschulsky 1839

Numbers

~30 spp. in 2 subgenera in our area (all but one adventive sp. are in the subg. Barytachys), ~350 spp. in ~10 subgenera worldwide(1)(2)

Range

worldwide; throughout the US and so. Canada(1)

Works Cited

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

2.	Taxonomic review of New World Tachyina (Coleoptera, Carabidae): descriptions of new genera, subgenera, and species, with ... Olivia F. Boyd, Terry L. Erwin. 2016. ZooKeys 626: 87-123.

Contributed by tom murray on 3 April, 2006 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by v belov
Last updated 17 August, 2017 - 6:56am

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