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Amerizus
Genus
Amerizus
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class
Insecta (Insects)
Order
Coleoptera (Beetles)
Suborder
Adephaga
Family
Carabidae (Ground Beetles)
Subfamily
Trechinae
Tribe
Bembidiini
Subtribe
Bembidiina
Genus
Amerizus
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
often treated as a subgenus of
Bembidion
(
1
)
;
B. utahense
Van Dyke, treated as
Amerizus
in
(
1
)
, is now placed in
B. (Lymnaeum)
Explanation of Names
Amerizus
Chaudoir 1868
Numbers
5 spp. in our area (all
Amerizus
s.str.), ~50 total
(
2
)
Range
Holarctic, with one subg. (
Amerizus
s.str.) mostly in NA and one in montane Asia; in our area,
A. wingatei
is eastern, the remaining spp., western
(
2
)
Works Cited
1.
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.
2.
Catalogue of Geadephaga (Coleoptera, Adephaga) of America, north of Mexico
Bousquet Y. 2012. ZooKeys 245: 1–1722.
Contributed by
v belov
on 8 February, 2011 - 12:19pm
Last updated 4 March, 2013 - 6:26am