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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Adephaga » Ground Beetles (Carabidae) » Harpalinae » Harpalitae » Harpalini » Harpalina » Harpalus » Harpalus group (Harpalus Harpalus group) » subgenus Amblystus (Harpalus subgenus Amblystus) » Harpalus rubripes

Species Harpalus rubripes

Classification · Explanation of Names · Size · Range · Remarks · Works Cited
what am I? some kind of ground beetle - Harpalus rubripes Carabid - Harpalus rubripes Harpalus rubripes? - Harpalus rubripes beetle - Harpalus rubripes carabid 3 - Harpalus rubripes carabid 3 - Harpalus rubripes Anisodactylus? - Harpalus rubripes - female Harpalus fraternus - Harpalus rubripes - male
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 Harpalini
Subtribe Harpalina
Genus Harpalus
No Taxon (Harpalus group)
No Taxon (subgenus Amblystus)
Species rubripes (Harpalus rubripes)
Explanation of Names
Harpalus rubripes (Duftschmid 1812)
Size
8‒11 mm(1)
Range
Native to the Palaearctic; adventive in North America (NS‒ON to PA)(2); recent westward spread to IL and WI.
Remarks
earliest record in our area: NH 1981(2)
Works Cited
1.Lompe A. (2002‒) Die Käfer Europas: Ein Bestimmungswerk im Internet
2.Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by tom murray on 20 April, 2006 - 5:12pm
Additional contributions by Peter Messer, v belov
Last updated 8 November, 2024 - 3:06pm

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