Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Tetragonoderus

One day after the first monsoon storm, at night at the patio light - Tetragonoderus Tetragonoderus fasciatus 1001C23 - Tetragonoderus intersectus two tone beetle - Tetragonoderus small beetle - Tetragonoderus latipennis ref photo for peter Messer - Tetragonoderus latipennis seashore ground beetle – Tetragonoderus fasciatus? - Tetragonoderus Beetle or what could it be? - Tetragonoderus pallidus
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 Cyclosomini
Genus Tetragonoderus
Explanation of Names
Tetragonoderus Dejean 1829
Numbers
5 spp. (of which one adventive) in our area, all in the subg. Crossonychus; ~75 spp. in 2 subgenera worldwide(1)
Range
mostly tropical regions of Eurasia and the New World, with a few spp. ranging into the Holarctic Region; in our area, 5 spp. are restricted to so. US and T. fasciatus reaching NY-so.ON-IA(2)
Habitat
riparian situations on sand(2)
Remarks
Hunt at night rather like tiger beetles; many come to light(2)
Works Cited
1.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
2.American Beetles, Volume I: Archostemata, Myxophaga, Adephaga, Polyphaga: Staphyliniformia
Arnett, R.H., Jr., and M. C. Thomas. (eds.). 2000. CRC Press LLC, Boca Raton, FL.